We also had a December birthday to celebrate:
Activities included colouring Christmas pictures for children and puzzles involving words: how many words of three letters or more can you find from the word ‘CHRISTMAS’? (Have a go… our total was 75!) How many unusual Christmas-related words can you think of beginning with each of the letters of the word ‘Christmas’? Some answers to this last question included ‘celebration’, ‘Clark Griswald’, ‘cherub’, ‘herald’, ‘realm’, ‘reign’, ‘incarnation’, ‘ivy’, ‘sausage rolls’, ‘sherry’, ‘trifle’ (sensing a theme here…!), ‘tinsel’, ‘trimmings’, ‘thanksgiving’ (without the capital T!), ‘mass’, ‘Mary’, ‘mistletoe’, ‘mincemeat’, ‘angels’, ‘announcement’, ‘shepherds’ and ‘stable.’
There are many hugely enjoyable aspects of Christmas listed above, but what is crucial is for us to keep Christ central to all our celebrations. Without Christ, there is no reason for Christmas, but with Him, we have so many reasons to celebrate, to rejoice and to have fun.