First Sunday Post
Sunday is my Sabbath, and so I plan my posts to be a bit more serious and appropriate for my Sabbath Day worship. This is the first and I decided that the true meaning of Christmas would be a good topic. It is difficult with all of the sales and all of the things that I would love to get for my children to remember what Christmas really is all about. We give each other gifts to remind us of God’s gift to us, He gave us His only begotten son. I struggle to not only keep my spending in check but find a way to truly honor the meaning of Christmas and teach it to my children. I don’t want my kids to look forward to Christmas because they feel they are due toys. I even have a hard time with the idea of getting my older son excited about Santa Claus because, that isn’t what it’s about…There are a few traditions that we are going to have that will hopefully bring the focus back to our gratitude to our Heavenly Father and for our Savior, but the thing we are going to do that hopefully will have the biggest effect is to talk of Christ and verbalize our praises to our God for the wonderful blessing of the atonement. With that, I just wanted to express my gratitude for my Savior, for the knowledge I have of His gift, how grateful I am to have children who remind me about what is important.
