[I read this blog post from Ann Voskamp: The Grateful Christmas Project: 7 Ways to have more Grateful Kids this Christmas and I liked it so much that I had write about it on my blog too :-]
What’s does Jesus get for His birthday? Have you ever thought of that? Don’t we have this whole Christmas thing wrong? It’s Jesus birthday and we go out and buy everyone gifts except Him.
What if on my birthday or your birthday, every family member went out and bought every other family member a gift except me or you? I would probably be down right angry!
Perhaps we need to re-think Christmas? What if Jesus and His birthday were the primary focus of Christmas? What if giving Jesus gifts was part or the whole of our Christmas?
Ann talks about how her family started doing this about a dozen years ago or so. How instead of giving each other gifts, they…
“It happens after breakfast, each day for the last two weeks of Advent, selecting one gift for He who is Christmas.”
… give Jesus a gift by selecting one from the various catalogs linked below:
Compassion Catalog … World Vision Catalog… Samaritan’s Purse Catalog … Partner’s International Catalog… Gospel for A
sia Catalog… Mennonite Central Committee Catalog …
Our family tried this this year. We still gave gifts to each other, but we also picked a couple of gifts from these catalogs to give to the One who celebrates His birthday at Christmas.
I would really love to hear from you. Have you ever tried what I describe above? How did it turn out?
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