I Love Christmas

I love Christmas. Mainly because we are celebrating the birth of a promised Saviour. Of course it is not the babe in the manger that saves us. It is the babe that grew into a Holy and sinless man to give Himself willingly to die for my sins and the sins of the world.

And I love to read the Christmas story in Luke 2, but I especially enjoy reading the book of Isaiah through the holiday. The prophecy in comparison to the gospels is amazing, isn't it? The Bible, the REAL Bible, the King James Bible, never contradicts itself.

Christmas is a beautiful holiday. It is warm and inviting and there seems to be happy and smiling faces almost everywhere you go. Very rarely do you run into a real Scrooge. I love the lights and the tinsel. The evergreens and red ribbons. Bells and angels. It makes me feel happy inside and ready to celebrate the true meaning of the season. Christ.

I said before that I do not base my salvation on the babe in the manger because that was only the beginning. But I do love nativity scenes because the birth of Christ did mark the beginning. LOL Here are some pictures of the ones I've collected and put out this morning.


My placemats. I have a tapestry wall hanging that goes with
these, but haven't put it up yet.


Bruce bought this one for me a few weeks ago to put on our
Happy Birthday Jesus cake. I just realized I had my stable
turned backward. You can see the little angel hanging there.
LOL


These are a few of my music boxes. The big snowglobe plays
Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem and the other two play Silent Night.


This was given to me by Mary Elizabeth and Caleb, two children
that I babysat for. It's stained glass and you put tea light
candles behind it.


My mom found these for me ages ago. Aren't they cute?


Obviously the one on the left is glass with a mirror bottom and
the one on the right is a snowglobe.


This one I got from a little boy in our church when I was his Patch
teacher.


This was my Dollar Tree find.


These are little gifts given to me from different people. I like
the way the cross overshadows the silver nativity. It reminds me
of that song "Born To Die" by Ron Hamilton.


This one is on the piano. It looks like the one pictured above,
but it's much bigger.


These are also music boxes. The one of the left plays
Hark The Herald Angels Sing and reads Luke 2. Kids love
that one. The one in the middle is probably the most
unique because the stable is an egg. I've never seen one
like that before. It plays Silent Night. And the one on
the right lights up with different lights behind that halo and plays
Silent Night.


This one is one of my favorites. It reminds me of children
in a Christmas play.


This one was my Grandmother's. It was the first nativity I
owned.