December 24, 2024

On this Christmas Eve, we pause to give thanks for all the many blessings of this year. And we prepare our hearts for tomorrow when we receive the Christ child into our homes and souls. Being with friends and family is a precious time; it is a season—a holy period celebrated each year by Christian churches to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a time of giving and nurturing. It has affected so many people that over the years it has become a secular as well as religious holiday. Yet had it not been for a teenage mother named Mary, her baby, and a man called Joseph two thousand years ago, there would be no Christmas.