“Let us all celebrate the one who was given to us all this holiday season.”-Mrs. Shaunelius L. Sterns

Jesus is the Reason For the Season!

When I think about Christmas, I think about the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. I think about all of the feelings that Mary had when Gabriel came and gave her the message of having Jesus. I think about what her parents must have felt when she came back home and saw her with child. I think about all of the children that saw her and what they must have thought. I think about what Joseph must have thought when he saw her for the first time when she returned. Everyone must have been in shock and wondering how it could have happened, and who did it to her. I feel that emotions were running rampant around the village that they lived in. I feel that Mary knew that she was going to be shunned when she came back home. She broke no law, but in their eyes she had, she told the truth but no one believed her, and I feel that must have hurt her to her heart, especially when her parents did not believe her. I wonder what Joseph must have thought when after all of the time she was gone, he was building a home for them after they were married so they would have a place to live. I guess he must have thought that it was all for nothing. After Joseph made the accusation about the situation, Gabriel came to him in a dream and told him what was going to happen, then he believed.

I know what it feels like to tell the truth and no one still will believe you, it hurts you to yhour heart. Those that you knew would believe you made you feel good, but when it was the other way around you were stabbed in the back by them. It hurts when your family does not believe you, but believe the rumors that they hear from others. Sometimes people do not know the truth when they hear it, it sounds like a lie to them.

Mary did not lie about anything, she told the truth. When it was time for them to go because of the census, Mary chose to go with Joseph. It was a long hard ride getting to Bethlehem, but they made it. Who would have thought that Jesus was going to be born in a stable? I know that they would have never thought that when they arrived to Bethlehem that their son was going to be born in a stable around animals, but He was. Just think about how wonderful it would have been if we could have been there to celebrate the birth of our Lord!

Just think about all of the miles that the three wisemen had to travel, made a stop and then kept on following the star until they made it to their destination to see Jesus, the new born King.

When I think about Christmas, I don’t think about store bought gifts that only bring temporary happiness and joy. I think about the gift that God gave to us all…the only one who can bring us real joy and happiness, and eternal life, life more abundantly, the gift of the Holy Ghost, health, wholeness, and healing, and most of all everlasting love that will never grow old, that will never fail, that will never leave us nor forsake us, who is there for us when no one else is, who dries our eyes, who mends our broken hearts, who makes a way where there seems to be no way, and will stick closer to us than anyone on this earth. I think about the one who is the Alpha, Omega, Beginning and the End, the first and the last, the one who died, was raised from the dead, and is alive forever more, who is seated in honor at the right hand of the Father with all power in His hands in heaven and on earth, the one who walked on water, opened blind eyes, made the lame walk, healed, every sickness, every disease, stopped devils in their tracks, the one who spoke everything into being, the one who forgives us when we don’t deserve it, the one who loves us more than anything, His NAME IS JESUS CHRIST! He is who I think about when I think about Christmas, because if He was not born there would be no Christmas. There would be no reason to celebrate this special day.

This is what Christmas means to me. What does Christmas mean to you?

away in a manger lyrics – Bing I thought this would be the perfect song.

<This month has been vey stessful>. // Things has not gone right for me, everything has been wrong>.//

//<I feel so frustrated because of all of this that I am going through trying to recover from an accident I had at work>. //I am thankful that it was not worse thatn it is>. As I am recovering I am trying to keep myself sharp by writing almost every day.//

//I am trying to teach myself how to write with code. This is just practice for me, but I just want to learn something new.// So when this is come across please don't judge. But anyway, I am going to remain in faith and in prayer until God brings me through this cicumstance. It will not last forever, but for now it sure feels like it. I am thakful that none of my bones were broken. I am thankful that God was there to protect me when it happened. I am thankful that HE was in the hospital room with me to comfort me, I just do not know what I would do if HE were not there with me.

// I am thankful that He dried my tears away. Sometimes I just wonder why I am being tested like this. I do not understand. Maybe it is to test my faith, maybe it is to make me strong to strengthen my faith...I do not know what God's plan is for me, but I am sure I will know when it is all said and done.// No matter what we may have to face or go through, God will always be there to  lift us up. He will never leave us nor forsake us. Life may be frustrating at times, but we should still be thankful anyway.

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