There is
something very special that happens every Christmas at Central. We get to see
children tell the Christmas story—during the week before Christmas, in the
Christmas pageants that every class in our Weekday Nursery School and
Kindergarten put on; and again on Christmas Eve, during our 4 pm worship
service. And there is something magical about seeing Christmas through the eyes
of children. You see it in the way the grownups react. You feel it in the way
your own heartstrings are tugged.
“Christmas is for children…just for
children…grownups say,” Glen Campbell sang in a song back in the 60’s. “That
same tale is told every Christmas Eve again. We may think we’re old, but our
hearts can almost believe again. Christmas is for children, but aren’t we all
children Christmas day?”
This Christmas, I hope that you can
see as a child, Not childishly, mind you, but I hope that this Christmas you
can see as a child. That is, I hope that you can see something of the magic of
that same tale that is told again every Christmas Eve about a poor child, of
apparently no significance, born on that long ago night in some insignificant
place, being for us the very presence of God, reshaping human history,
reshaping our hearts so that we can almost believe again.
--Pastor Don
Steele
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