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Friday's Grand Connection Thought
When our children were small, one of our favorite Christmas traditions was making a pine straw bed for baby Jesus (instead of pine straw, you could use pieces of hay, balls of cotton, etc.). We’d set up the Nativity with everything except the figure of Jesus. Near the Nativity we filled a small basket with straw.
Whenever family members did secret acts of kindness to honor Christ (such as making someone’s bed, taking out the trash, giving an elderly neighbor cookies, etc.), he/she would secretly place a piece of pine straw on the manger floor. Then, on Christmas Day, the figure of baby Jesus was placed on the bed that had been made as acts of worship.
Doing this helped us all remember the real reason for celebrating Christmas—the birth of Jesus Christ, our Savior.
Tomorrow night Pops and I will get out the Nativity set and decorate the Christmas tree. And, yes, we will have a small basket filled with pine straw. Several of our grandchildren are now old enough to understand secret acts of kindness. So, this year some new little hands will be helping to make baby Jesus’ bed.
(If your grandchildren live out of town, you may want to share this tradition with their parents and send a special basket for the straw.)
He is able,
Mary
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2 comments:
What a beautiful lesson for children ...and adults. I shall pass your story of “secret acts of kindness” along to my children and grandchildren. --Rita
So beautiful! - Rita
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