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Shelton Mason County Journal
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December 24, 1970     Shelton Mason County Journal
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mas Is oli II II EV. KEN ROBINSON There is a helpless vulnerability lavist~. upon our chddren all ~arts H LUTHERAN CHURCH about an infant that captures our of gifts which would :,ct b:, 'Christmas is for children." heart. Without the self-giving love lavished ordinarily. Christmas ave all heard or spoken these and nurture of another person, a would make for a few happy s. No doubt this idea baby could not grow toward days, a pleasant breather from the tough facts of everyday adult life, ~nated from the fact that tmas has to do with d baby in a Bethlehem manger, and Young virgin mother named ry. The event celebrates the th of this particular infant at a ;cific time in history. And ryone (almost) loves a baby. P'reeting Drawn by Robbie Wotton ~,ge 7 Mt. View School the remembrance of fond and sentimental days from our own childhood. But then Christmas would be over for another year. And we might feel that we and our children have been left bankrupt, more in terms of the time, energy and emotion put into the season, than merely money. Let's face it. It's an adult world. What can a baby born nearly 2,000 years ago mean for the harsh realities of being alive now? It is a world of hunger, thirst, sweat, loneliness, boredom, weakness, failure, fear, anxiety, hurt, sin, death. These are the realities of life in which Christmas is celebrated. So there must be more to Christmas than simply a day "for children." Truth that speaks to the realities of life, not occasional events to delight and entertain, is what I want for my children., and myself. Maybe it all depends on what we think of the word "children." For Christmas was and is for children, children as God sees them. God sees every man, woman, child, regardless of physical age, as His child by right of creation. The birth of Jesus was God's gift to man. We adults are captured by the joy of Christmas when we understand that in Christ Jesus, God is identifying Himself with us, taking upon Himself our frail human flesh, entering the arena of our life with its harsh realities. Christmas is God giving and doing for us. The babe of the manger is Greeting Drawn by Yvonne Bina 5th Grade, Evergreen School SHOE maturity, but would die. ,,at if this is literally what makes Christmas a time "for children", where do we adults fit in? Christmas could run the risk of our making it little more than a yearly celebration of "babyhood," a time when we HOODSPORT CENTER Gib and Neoma Frisken Greeting Drawn by Kim Joslin 6th Grade, Bordeaux School MPANY TITLE worthy of all the adoration my adulthood call give...for the wood which cradled the infant would one day take the form of a cross. Christmas, in fact, is void of meaning unless it is seen in light of the full grown Christ as the God-man suffering and dying for us, and being raised from death. It is the victory of the cross and tomb that gives joy and hope to Christmas. To know that we are loved, forgiven, declared "right with God" in Christ frees us to live as adults. As someone once said, "The Son of God became a son of man so that He might make sons of men the sons of God." God so loved that He gave...Christmas is something God has accomplished for his children. So Christmas is for children after all. And you and 1 are the children for whom it is given. To receive in humble faith the gift of God's Son...to acknowledge Him as Lord of all life, to find the motivating power of our own lives by open trust in Him...to take the posture of a child before God as our gracious Father...is to become fully human, to discover genuine manhood, and to lay hold of life and its renewed relationships. So, celebrate Christmas children. Rejoice in God's "life-giving" gift. The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. Richard H. Tawney Office, Left to right: Bud Knutzen, Wally Dundas, Tim Hamilton, Tom Roof, Corinne Williams, Carol Rapacz, Beulah Helser, Art Mell, Art Nicklaus. II t Greeting Drawn by Tracy Nelson 4th Grade Mt. View School NORTHWEST Les Shelver li -Drive Safe from all of US here 11 Shop Back row: Bruce Willey, Jack Denny, Les Rodgers, Tom Bunnell Front row: Ron Brewer, Marvin Likes, Gib Lord. at "Since 1-92 7'" 1st and Grove And may your New Year be happy and prosperous. Thursday, December 24, 1970 - Shetton-Mason County Journal - Page 13