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[te the time we realize moct deeply that the more love ie expended, the more there ie of it for others, Thomas $ Monson, (Christmas ie Love) What shall we give?-Christmas music video hitas/winyoutube.comwatch?v=1H9rk_@08D9 Coeccceccecceccecceccocce CoececeeesseeeecseoceccceCoecerocsecccercecoccce Part of the purpose for telling the story of Christmas is to remind us that Christmas doesn't come from a store. Indeed, however delightful we feel about it, leven as children, each year it"means alittle bit more.” And no matter how many Limes we read the biblical account ofthat evening in Bethlehem, we always come away with a thought-—or twomwe haven't had before. 1 do not feel-oF mean this t0 sound-like a modern-day Scrooge. The gold, frankincense, and myrrh were humbly given and appreciatively received, and So they should be, every year and always, As my wife and children ean testify, no one ‘gets more giddy about the giving and receiving of presents than | do, But for that very reason, I ike you, need (0 remember the very piain scene, even the poverty, of a night devoid of tinsel or wrapping or goods of this world, Only ‘when we see that suered, unadorned child of our devotion—the Babe of Bethlehem will we know shy “tis the season to be jolly” and why the giving of Bifts is $0 appropriate At the focal point of all human history, 2 point illuminated by a new star in the hheavens revealed for just such a purpose, probably no other mortal watched— none but @ poor your carpenter, a beautiful virgin mother, and silent stabled animals who had not the power to utter the sacredness they had seen. Shepherds ‘would soon arrive and later, wise men from the East. Later yet the memory of that Fight would bring Santa Claus and Frosty and Rudolphand all would be welcome, ‘But first and forever there was just a litle family, without toys oF trees or tinsel, ‘with a baby~that’s how Christmas began Itis For this baby that we shout in chorus:"Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King! ... Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth” (Hymns, no. 209), Perhaps recalling the circumstances of that gift, of his birth, of his own childhood, perhaps remembering that purity and faith and genuine humility will be required oF every celestial soul, Jesus must have said many times as he looked into the little. ‘eyes that loved him (eyes that always best saw what and who he really was), “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven” (Matt 18:3). Christmas, then, is for children—of all ages. Jeffrey R. Holland (Without Ribbons and Bows) fitps:www youtube comivatch°v-RUBXOT7qnx¥# kids & Chistmas-Learing the Meaning of Christmas through the eyes ofa Chit eoecceecceccecsecccoceeoeceeecccececcccececceHe joy ime i. celebrating, Llriotmar-fov despite discouragement and disheartening conditions thweugheut the world ibis the fappiot vason: of the whale yuan, But lt ww cat Keepin. mind, that people ate. ment lensed whore dail, conduct mart nearly comport with th teaching amd ecample of hour hrs ew Shed and, Davion at whore bith was pooclaimed. Stace on cant Good wil toward men Coeceececceccecceccecccceeoocccccccce Despite all we can do, we cannok have a fullness of joy in this world or through our own efforts. Only in Christ can our joy be full. This is why the angel proclaimed: ‘I bring you good Lidings of great Joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this da a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord’ (Luke 2:10-11). We are able to have a fullness of Joy only when spirit and body are inseparably connected in the glorious resurrection to celestial gtorg. That joy, of course, comes only Ehrough the mercy of the Holy Messiah” (Dallin H Oaks). Joy tothe World Dawid Archuleta and Mermen Tabernacle Chir tps://mww youtube, a. eccccccecceSVTESTIOY THAT CHRLST 1S THE LIGHT TO ALL MANKIND. HE HAS POINTED, MARKED ONT, AND LIGHTED THE WAT. .. BUT E¥EN TO THOSE WHO REJECT HIP, HE LS THE LIGHT WHICH SHINETH OM THE, DARKNESS” UOHN tS!” (EZRA TATT BENSON. “AND THE LIGHT WHICH JHINETH, WHICH GIVETH TOY LIGHT, LS THROWGH HIM WHO ENLIGHTENETH YOUR EYES, WHICH LJ THE SATE LIGHT THAT QNICKENETH TOUR WHDER STANDINGS; . THE LIGHT WHICH LIM ALL THINGS, WHICH GIVETH LIFE TO ALL THINGS, ‘WHICH LS THE LAW BT WHICH ALL THINGS ARE GOVERNED, EVEN OWER OF GOD" (DEC ste 13). AS TOM SEE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS THL SEASON THINK ABOUT WHAT THET MEAN.What we Seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become, Love is the guiding light that illuminates the disciple’s path and fills our daily walk with life, meaning, and wonder. Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, the true altitude of our discipleship. Love is the way of the disciple. President Dieter F. Uchtdorf Oct. 2009 Love is the motivating. principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming ike Hum, our perfect example, Our way oF Ge, boar by hour, onast be Filled with the love of Ged and love Fer ethers There 6s no surprise in that, since the Lerd prectained these as the first and great conmandments. lt i love of Ged that will lead us to keep Hes commandments. And love of others (3 at the heart of our capacity to obey Hin, President Henry B Eyring Wise Men Still Seek Him-Modern Day Story of the Wise Men https: //mm. youtube. com/watch?v=90cQXpZMRKY“TWAS MANY, MANY A YEAR AGO WHEN CHRIST FIRSTCAME TO EARTH AND EACH YEAR DECEMBER ROLLS AROUND WHEN WE CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH. HE CAME TO EARTH, THEN DIED FOR US, TO SAVE US FROM OUR SINS, SO LET US, AS WE CELEBRATE, ALLOW HIS SPIRIT IN. FOR AS WE BECOME SO BUSY WITH OUR SPECIAL PREPARATIONS, WE TEND TO LOSE THE SIGHT OF THE REAL REASON FOR CELEBRATIONS, LET'S HOLD ON TO THE MIRACLE OF OUR LOVING SAVIOR'S BIRTH AND BRING BACK TO OUR MEMORY THE REASON HE CAME TO EARTH, SO INSTEAD OF BEING COMMERCIALIZED, WITH GIFTS TO OUTDO ALL, LETS GIVE THE GIFT OF "OURSELVES, WHETHER IT BE BIG OR SMALL. LET US NOT SO DWELL UPON THE GIFTS THAT MONEY CAN BUY BUT LET US GIVE A "HEART GIFT, AND HIS SPIRIT WILL STAND US BY. AS WE GO ABOUT OUR PREPARATIONS IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AHEAD. LET US HOLD DEEP WITHIN OUR HEARTS THE GREATEST MIRACLE INSTEAD. OF WHOSE GIFT IS THE GREATEST, THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN BLY; LET US COUNT OUR BLESSINGS AND THEN LET EACH ONE TRY TO BLESS THOSE LIVES AROUND US, AND BRING THE SPIRIT IN PUT "CHRIST’ BACK INTO CHRISTMAS : LET THE MIRACLE BEGIN. eoeccecececcccces e e e CoeccecercecceccecceseccceCeooecececccccceccecrecrocce CHRISTMAS ISTHE SPIRIT OF GIVING of ATHOUGHT THOMAS S. 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