Well here we are on Christmas Eve, and my feelings on Christmas are just all over the place right now. Thinking about the Savior of all mankind coming as an innocent vulnerable baby, and all of the notions that go along with that. My pastor gave a message on it yesterday and he talked about how “we would be lost without Christmas”, and I leaned over to my girlfriend Joey and my friend Brian to also point out that “we would be Jewish”. Or maybe we would be nothing at all, I’m not sure. Life would most definitely be different without Christ’s first coming, I’m not sure we would be lost though.
The other thing I think about a lot is gifts; most people do it, those that do not might donate the money they would spend on gifts. I personally love to give gifts, it’s really fun to just go buy something for someone you love and see their faces light up with surprise. I also enjoy receiving gifts, and I think that I treasure a gift much more than I treasure something I bought myself. One Christmas a friend spent the night and actually stole some CDs my mom gave me for Christmas and I was more upset because they were given to me! So when I think about all that I quickly think about grace, and how grace was given to me for free. So I think in the end thats what a gift at Christmas symbolizes to me, just how to hold on to the gifts we receive, cherish them and never think of them as being cheap because someone sacrificed something for you to receive that gift.
