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It鈥檚 Christmas time! A season that is full of traditions and sharing nestled in the beauty of decorative lights and ornaments on evergreen trees, homes, shopping malls and community streets. The music and pageantry playing in stores, on the radio, in schools is cheerful and bright. Families and friends come together to share memories and make new ones. Charitable giving to others who are alone, feeling sad, less fortunate or facing illness is very real and generous. So many, many good things.
As you enjoy all these wonderful attributes of Christmas I would like to suggest doing some thing that perhaps you have never done before. Find the true meaning of Christmas. Why the holiday exists today? Discover its original purpose from the original source.
You could open the Bible and read the Christmas story in the Book of Luke. If you don鈥檛 own a Bible you can always go on line! However you will need to search things like 鈥淐hristmas Bible Verses鈥� or 鈥淭he Book of Luke鈥� as it鈥檚 a jungle of information in there!
Another option is to watch Charlie Brown鈥檚 Christmas - fun with or without children!
Or - perhaps - find a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service in your community and invite a friend or another family to go check it out with you. They usually last about an hour in the early evening.
These experiences can bring a beautiful spiritual dynamic adding a sense of peace and joy in the midst of the more difficult, sometimes unfair and harsh realities of life.
It really doesn鈥檛 matter how 鈥渋mportant鈥� we are, what we do for a living, what we own or don鈥檛 own, Every one of us is precious to God.
As Linus recites in鈥滳harlie Brown鈥檚 Christmas鈥�...
鈥淎nd the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.鈥� Luke 2:10,11 KJV
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