Christmas is for Children

Christmas is for Children                       10-17-2011

By John W. Vander Velden

 

Christmas is for children; we all know that.  The lights reflected in young eyes.  The anticipation that grows with each day.  Smiles all around and the best behavior we have seen all year.  Yes, Christmas is for children!  The fresh sounds of young voices singing old familiar carols.  Small hands decorating cookies.  Impatient faces looking longingly at the treasures beneath the tree.

Christmas is for children.  Must growing up take away the magic?  Perhaps we forget to see the wonder…the first snow…the tree with its lights… Perhaps we are unable…too busy…too mature.  Has reality pushed the Christmas we once knew aside?  It’s just the way it is.  Because Christmas is for children.

Nothing truer has ever been said!  Yes indeed, Christmas is for children.  All those free enough to accept it with hearts and arms wide open.  Have we forgotten…we are all somebody’s child.  Perhaps parents ourselves we do not view ourselves that way.  Years we strove to leave our childhood behind.  Though the years pass, one thing never changes…you…me…everyone…are children.  No matter what part of life we find ourselves…it is one thing we never out grow.

Christmas is for children…it is for you…for me.  For you are after all your parent’s child…but much more…you are God’s!

Merry Christmas!!!

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