What is Christmas?
I look at what Christmas means... the celebration, the symbols, the reasons to celebrate, to give gifts, to see one another in a new light. The Light of Jesus. As I write this, I will be the first one to say I am not perfect in this way. There are a few people that I thought so highly of and even put on pedestals only to watch what I thought was a great fall from grace. In my own eyes, they did and letting go of them has been hard but I can't see them for the greatness they once had in my eyes. I can't see them for the changes they have made within them and on the outside because it's not the person whom I believed in for years. So I, too, struggle with this. Let's take a peek at all things that we surround ourselves with for the holidays. The Manger scene- Joseph and Mary, and of course Jesus. Let's look at where it is... Back then, they put there animals in caves, not in wooden structures. The manger itself was a stone feeding trough