I have been looking around at so many of the Christmas displays and it has changed since when I was a child - I think the Nativity scene used to be displayed a lot more.
I was reading an article about preparing Christmas decorations around your home, and nowhere did it say about a Nativity scene.
A birth long ago - has it become irrelevant now? Not to me? It's the whole reason for my existence.
That birth was a man - God become man - who declared his love for me and for multitudes of others when he took all of my failures up upon himself on a cross. Then died. I thank God that wasn't the end of the story - it truly is my neverending story.
I thank Him, at the end of the day, that He is there now, on a throne, somewhere beyond the reaches of the heavens, at the ends of the infinite universe, still smiling, knowing that this little child inside of me smiles every day, because of Him.
On my Christmas shopping list, for the very first time this year, I am going to buy myself a nativity scene, and send up a little prayer of thanks.
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