What a profound thought

Sister's are amazing for so many things however mine is best at giving me the chance to voice what I need and then she offers the honest advice. You know that advice you don't want to hear... well that's her.

As usual when I'm having a 'faithless' moment I call her and we talk. On this particular conversation Monday I asked her the meaning of Christmas. Now I expected the candid answer 'oh your commemorating Jesus birth'! Well no she said something to me that I have thought about for the last three days.

Tonight I attended my first ever Christmas Eve Service and the pastor said the same profound thing (only in a fancier way). So, I have again spent the whole night thinking of the profoundness of the thought.

Both told me that we celebrate the birth of the child for everything that the man did. I never thought about that. Sis says that if Jesus was never born then he could have never grown and become the amazing man that he was. As, I try to disprove this thought I am reminded of all the birthdays on the national holiday calendar. Almost every birthday that our nation observes is not based on the child being born, it's in honor of the man that the child became.

I have only one regret in this epiphany that I have undergone. I regret that we have to designate one day to treasure, and commemorate the birth of Jesus. I think he was a far more important man than any of the other commemoration days that we observe.

I love the idea of Christmas and hope to commemorate his birth once a month for the next year!