Children Understand Christmas ~ Courtney Peetz

Hey y’all! Merry Christmas! Today’s post is from my sister! I hope you enjoy!

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Here we are again at Christmas. Another year has passed and again it’s time to pull out the tree, lights and gingerbread cookies. It’s a time for family and friends to join in joy, hope and healing. A time filled with laughter and love, familiar traditions, and forgiveness.

The kid in everyone is drawn out as Christmas spirit spreads. No matter our age, something deep inside us wants this time to last forever. Christmas happens every year, yet we never tire of it, as we do with other days like tax day. Christmas is unlike any other day that happens every year. It’s special.

Christmas is a time to celebrate God’s unending grace. The grace that was so potent and powerful that it moved God to come to earth, live a perfect life, and die a sinner’s death so that we could be pardoned.

Children understand this. Have you ever noticed that they like to do things again, and again, and again, while never losing their wonder, joy, excitement, and interest, no matter how many times it’s done?

“If the heavens could be measured/ If the stars could all be numbered/ Only then would your great mercy end.” –The Vanishing Point by Mary Barrett

Only the child in us can delight in the mercy of God for all its worth. This Christmas, take some time to be thankful for God’s grace. Then do it again. And again. God’s mercy never ends, and neither does Christmas.

“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.” -G. K. Chesterton

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Courtney Peetz is a 15-year-old girl who is trying to follow Jesus with all her heart. When she is not doing school, you can find her reading, writing, thinking, sewing, cooking, or taking pictures with her camera. She writes for ACBPAK, Cliff’s Brink and The Rebelution along with working on far too many books at one time.