Kids Write Letters To Jesus

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Kids Write Letters To Jesus

Written By : William Teach

A happy story for a pre-Christmas Monday

Children all over the world write letters to Santa Claus asking for presents, but Hope Baldwin, a fifth-grader at St. Monica School, has a reminder for them.

“We get gifts on Christmas, on Jesus’ birthday, to remind us what a gift he was to us,” said Hope, 10, of Kalamazoo. “A lot of kids forget that. If Jesus had never been born, we wouldn’t even have Christmas.”

Hope and 25 of her classmates at the Catholic school all wrote letters this year to the Christ child instead of to the chubby man in the red suit. They didn’t ask for a thing — the kids detailed the various ways their families celebrate Christ’s birth and poured heartfelt thoughts about Jesus onto paper, expressing love, appreciation and spirituality beyond their years.

Hope told baby Jesus in her letter that he is the true meaning of Christmas. “Some people get carried away with presents and Santa Claus,” she wrote. “They forget what Christmas is really about. … Jesus, you gave everything you had for me, including your life. That’s why I celebrate your birth on Christmas day.”

I’m sure the ACLU or some other far left group will have a problem with this, even though it is a private school.

jack

We get gifts at this time of year, Hope, because it was a tradition associated with the various solstice celebrations that took place in the world in the time before Christianity. We have Christmas because the early Catholic church could not stop people from having these celebrations near the end of December, at the time of the Solstice(the longest night). Rather than appear ineffectual, the Church created Christmas, the Feast of the Nativity, and set it to co-incide with the celebrations that were already taking place.

One great boon to Christendom came when Nicholas, a Greek bishop, delivered alms to the poor along with sweetmeats for children during the leaner times–around December. He became Saint Nicholas, whose gift-giving was first undertaken on his feast day, December 6th, but eventually extended until Christmas. As his legend merged with older legends of gift-giving elves that predated Christianity, he became Santa Claus.

No gift-giving on Christmas is connected to the Christ being a ‘gift’ to us–though some takes it’s inspiration from the gifts the magi gave the infant Jesus after following the star to Bethlehem.

So, I’m sorry, Hope, but Christmas IS about gift-giving, and celebration, and feasting. The baby Jesus was only added in later.

But there is good news in all of this, Hope.

You see, while it’s been really hard to find any records kept by the notoriously precise Romans about the life of Jesus, Mary, or Joseph, we DO have actual records of the actual existence of St. Nicholas.

So, while Jesus is a matter of faith, we know that there IS a Santa Claus.

Merry Christmas–(and there’s still time to jot off a quick one to Santa–just to be on the safe side)
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rmiller

I have to admit…
If I were you …the format should be changed.

You are not reaching the next generation.

But, that’s just me.