My son is a different bird. Guess he's more like his old man than I am comfortable with. He's excited about Christmas. He comes in and says to me with (with a serious, soul-searching expression on his face) I think its good that parents get gifts for their kids on Christmas. I thought for a second and this became a God moment. I brought up to him Matt 7:11 "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" After quoting that scripture, I told him that we as parents are simply trying to be like God. The way he blesses us. We are simply trying to show you that we love you. Of course God took it a few steps further. He knew that we in our human form were doomed to die. He that there was no way that any of us could live a life that would be free from sin. So he placed himself in flesh and took on our sin and our death so that none of us would have to suffer that punishment. He did this to show us he loves us. That is what Christmas is all about. God's ultimate Gift.
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Curt