WHEN I was a little kid, my Mom and Dad explained why we
celebrated Christmas. They told me that Christmas was
Jesus' birthday, and so we celebrated it to honor him.Well, being a little kid, I thought that having your birthday meant that you had a cake and lots of presents and had "Happy Birthday" sang to you. I thought that it was just horrible that Jesus didn't get any cakes or presents. I think that I probably would have tried to send him something if I could have figured out how and where to send it. So, since I couldn't do these things, I made my parents sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus every Christmas morning before we started opening our presents.
I have always liked to go to church on Christmas mornings. To me, it is a part of my Christmas. We don't have to get up any earlier or anything like that and it really helps me realize the spiritual side of Christmas. Many of the people that I know look at Christmas as a "gimme" holiday, and to them, the most important part is the presents, but to me it is more than that. It is the time when God's Son was born. Christmas is the most important and happiest time of the year.
