Ten Things Tuesday

This week I am Thankful for Symbols of Christmas...some of these ideas I learned this Christmas season are from a web site called http://www.dtm.org/ there are some neat ideas over there. SO as I have said before I will learn where ever I can.

1. The Christmas Tree...Only God can make that real tree that we choose to decorate every year. If you think about it...Christ died on a wooden cross that once was a tree.


2. The Christmas Tree lights/Candles..."He is the light of the world". Imagine the world with out his light...Total Darkness.


3. The Christmas Greenery...It represents growth...and with growing you need patience. as we all know it take a long time for a tree to grow and each of us are a tree planted in Jesus garden. So we will need patience while Jesus helps us to grow.


4. The Bright Star...Which guided the Shepards to find Baby Jesus.


5. The Gifts...Remember God gave the first gift of his son...Baby Jesus to save us. So we give gifts to honor Gods most precious gift.


6. The Angels...God used Angels in many ways...to proclaim the coming Christ...Angel Gabriel spoke to the Mary and told her she would be the mother of Christ.


7. Icicles Icicles represent tears of JOY...As per an old story, the Christ child took shelter for a night under a pine tree. When the tree realized that it was caring for Jesus, tears of happiness fell from its branches. The tears froze into icicles.


8. Mary and Joseph...Being the lucky chosen ones to help God raise his son.


9. Wreath...No beginning and no end...Circle of Life...God's unending love for us.


10. God... "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" and for this I believe and I celebrate CHRISTMAS...And I am not ashamed to say that.

Jesus being born changed the world...