You will occasionally read about the need to keep the focus of Christmas on Jesus. Those notes are a good thing after three days of Hallmark movies. It is not a bad thing to add all the family, peace, presents and cookies to the mix but it is, as today’s photo emphasizes, necessary to remember the actual events that sparked the season of Christmas and the real person at the center of them all.
“All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet: ‘Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’’” Matthew 1: 22,23 NLT
