I pray your Christmas was blessed by the knowledge that Christ was born to bring the assurance of forgiveness and eternal life to you. Sometimes, even when we remember the ‘reason for the season,’ we forget the specifics associated with the birth of Jesus. He came to earth to die so that you can go to heaven to live! It cannot be stated more simply than that.

Allowing our faith to reorient us away from our pain and to our Savior enables us to joyfully anticipate Christ’s coming, even in the face of anxiety and uncertainty.

Our faith encourages us to reconnect with our fellow Christians in celebration of the gifts of forgiveness and eternal life his birth promises.

May your faith in your Savior make this season of anticipation and celebration a joyful time for you.

My point is to encourage you to enjoy each season we are in to its fullest. That means take the time to relish all the unique features and aspects of each season, rather than simply check them off the list of holidays to get through until the next one. So, in the next paragraphs I’ll highlight some opportunities to enrich your individual seasonal celebrations in the hope that you will be blessed, specifically by each season. If I might paraphrase, “Let’s remember the reason for each season.”