Birth of Christ Let’s Make Christmas Special This Year

Birth of Christ

Let’s Make Christmas Special This Year

Making Christmas starts with thanksgiving

Make your thanks giving to God and others memorable 

The three little words we all need to hear

“I love you” needs to be expressed in ways that will be remembered

If you take the time to plan Christmas

Planning how to express your thanksgiving to God and others in memorable ways

You will make Christmas special

                         Remember the first Christmas did not just happen             

Throughout the Old Testament we see God was working on His plan

To make the first Christmas special

So every Christmas would be a special Christmas for you

Let’s Make Christmas Special This Year

The more we do something

the more common it becomes.

Christmas can become like that.

As children the thrill of getting up

in the morning and opening gifts.

Going to celebrate at grandma’s house.

Then as we get older and more responsibility

pressures our lives, the joy gets lost.

Sandy has always tried to

make life special for our family.

She has always taken the time to be

creative and get everyone involved.

She plans Christmas like a big production.

That starts with decorations before Thanksgiving.

I am so blessed to have a wife

who loves her family so deeply.

With both of our parents being divorced,

we have had to have many days of Christmas.

December 25^th is a special day,

but we have used other days to

celebrate so one day is not too busy to enjoy.

As we have spread out the joys of

Christmas it does become tiring.

A lot of work and energy.

When I was younger I thought what

made Christmas special was the gifts.

Finding the right gift and being

able to afford it was so stressful.

  Although I like to give gifts and receive them,

it was not the gifts that made Christmas special.

Sandy with her love for family

keeps us busy at Christmas.

With an Annual Progressive Dinners where we go to each

one of our kids house for part of a meal, so we get to enjoy

the decorations and hospitality in each one of their homes.

We do a Family Lock In from a Friday night till

after church on Sunday where our children and

grandchildren celebrate a hoist of activities together.

Every several years we rent a large house

or resort with the money we would have

spent on gifts to make lasting memories.

My wife is the queen of Christmas

and I am her servant helper.

With all the special things we

do each year I ask the question…

What makes Christmas special?

To make Christmas special

you need the right ingredients.

Making Christmas special

starts with thanks giving.

Gratitude

First to God than to others

Christmas is special because God loved

us so much He sent His Son Jesus born

of a virgin to set us free from our sin.

It is the Christmas Story, times of prayer

before every meal, sharing and coming

together that makes our Christmas special.

A fun time to remember and give

thanks to God for His unspeakable gift.

Secondly, thanks giving for family and friends…

Words, hugs, jesters of kindness, gifts focused on

letting others know they mean the world to you.

It is always good to have a camera

taking pictures at Christmas, but the greatest

pictures are the memories in your mind.

Make your thanks giving to

God and others memorable.

 

The three little words we all need to hear…

“I love you”

Needs to be expressed in ways that will be remembered.

If you take the time to plan Christmas…

Planning how to express your thanksgiving

to God and others in memorable ways

You will make Christmas special.

    Remember the first Christmas did not just happen.

                                                             

Throughout the Old Testament we see

God was working on His plan to make

the first Christmas special so every Christmas

would be a special Christmas for you.

Scripture Reading

Micah 5:2 NIV

2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,

though you are small among the clans of Judah,

out of you will come for me

one who will be ruler over Israel,

whose origins are from of old,

from ancient times."

Isaiah 7:14 NIV

14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: 

The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son,

 and will call him Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6 NIV

6 For to us a child is born,

to us a son is given,

and the government will be on his shoulders.