I was struck by the awesome beauty of Christmas decorations hanging high and low in the big sanctuary of our church this morning. One had to stop a moment and reverence the Christ Child for which the decorations symbolized. It was almost like every inch of space was decorated. Plants of poinsettias lined the entire front of the stage. In the isles at the end of every pew sat a poinsetta plant. On either side of the stage two silver trees stood glowing as a reminder that some child somewhere needed a gift for Christmas. The trees were gracing little paper angels with a childs name on it. Every person who took an angel bought a gift for that child. Every angel had to be claimed by someone. Today was the beginning of Christmas for me. In the large dinning room of our church the many tables were each laid with a bright red cloth. A center piece of green pineneedles formed a circular holder for a big red candle. Pine cones, ribbons, and colored bulbs added elegance to the beautiful focal point of the table.Out side in front of the church an astounding display of the manger scene with the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus, stands to remind us all of our hope for eternity.
Our beautiful Christmas of celebrating the Savior of the world is in jeopardy. The evil one has almost destroyed all two-thousand plus years of tradional praise and honor to our King. I hope everyone will stop and think just what it will be like when we can no longer keep Jesus in Christmas. Folks, it's coming sooner than you think. My suggestion would be to bury your head in the holy bible while you still can, and memorize every word you possible can. The enemy can take our bibles, but they can't take the word out of our hearts.
God bless all
Jean Sharp
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