Carter and I have been busy decorating the apartment, baking cookies, listening to Christmas music, making a nativity scene and running Christmas errands. As such, the little man has Christmas on the brain. Each day he's been asking "Is tonight the night that Santa comes?" He is greatly anticipating the arrival of Old Saint Nick.It is with this childlike hope of the anticipated arrival of joy that we should approach Christmas Day. For a child, it's difficult not to focus on the gifts that come in pretty packages with bows, but my hope is that I'll teach Carter to anticipate the celebration of Christ's birth as the GREATEST gift of the season!
Isaiah 9:6 "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
Luke 2:1-11
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to his own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
