This time of the year (maybe even a bit earlier than this) my family at home is pulling out all of the boxes of Christmas stuff. One of the closets in our basement at home is entirely filled with decorations, games, books, and other items that mark the season. Many times before, my mom has gone through with us those things, and has asked us how they relate to what we're celebrating. Many of the stories teach things that strengthen our family, and many of the ornaments on our tree focus on events in our lives or other things that represent us and are meaningful to us. Of all the things represented by those things we pull out at Christmas, nothing is represented more often than our Savior Jesus Christ.
My mother personally taught me that Christmas is all about our Savior. From our mother's special efforts and care, we could sincerely say along with the young men in the Book of Mormon "we do not doubt our mothers knew it." [Alma 56:48] I know that my mother knows the true meaning of Christmas.
"And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." [2 Nephi 25:26]"To catch the real meaning of the spirit of Christmas, we need only to drop the last syllable and it becomes the spirit of Christ." -President Thomas S Monson, Christ's living prophet.
