When I was younger, I never wanted Christmas to end. It always added such a magical feeling of excitement. Christmas meant getting hot chocolate and driving around to look at all the Christmas lights. On Christmas day, that magical feeling would increase as I would journey downstairs to open my presents from Santa with my parents. It was a time to spend time with family. As I got older that feeling of magic remained, but changed as I grew in a more mature understanding of the deep traditions that take place.
The magical feeling exudes from the joy that everyone has. In my opinion, Christmas As I grew in my faith, became a time for renewal as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. The same lights that I enjoyed as a child now hold the new meaning of the light of the world. It became a time to be thankful for all of the blessings I have in my life. Christmas is also about bonding with family. It proved challenging for my whole family to find time to be together once cousins went off to college. However, Christmas is the one time that, despite the business of everyday life, we all come together. It is about making memories while reminiscing on old ones. Christmas further means spreading God’s love and mercy to others. God loved us so much that he sacrificed His only Son for our sin, so it is important that we spread that joy with others.
The happiness that comes along with Christmas does not have to end on December 26. Throughout the year we should make it our mission to approach each day with that same joy. We learned that best from the Rugrats, “Treat each day like Christmas and your world’s a holiday.”
By: Marjorie Pawlowicz ’17, Photography Editor