Yaay!!!Christmas is almost here *dancing*.........There is a reason for the season, and the real beauty of the season is it reminds us of all the beauty in life that we took for granted.Our family,friends and our faith..........Christmas exposes painful wounds, both new and old, Jesus was born on a day just as dark and painful as today,,,,Christmas demonstrates God’s love in flesh and blood. At Christmas, God goes to extremes to rescue his people, redeem the helpless and heal the broken. God loves his creation, even though we took our freedom and made a royal mess. That love is so great that he left his divinity behind, became human, grew from newborn to adult and then died. Think of that: the divine immortal God chose to live and die like a finite mortal. Who would do that? Only One who loves infinitely.
The Christmas story is a very human yet fully divine story, embroiled in scandal and showered with angelic fanfare, fulfilled prophesies, and kept promises. It draws our gaze upward and outward, away from our pain and toward God and others. It teaches us healing comes from giving of ourselves and invites us ordinary people to join God’s work restoring the world.
The word we know as 'Christmas' simply cannot be found anywhere in scripture! It is a compound word created by the Catholic church to designate the celebrating of the birth of CHRIST with a MASS on the evening of December 24th.
Why they shorten Christmas to XMAS? Years ago retailers, wanting to save ad space and cut costs, began to shorten the word Christmas to XMAS using the letter X to replace the letters 'Christ.' This shortening of the word still occurs in a limited fashion today.lol!!!
WISHING YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE
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