Day 15: The Red Stocking and Other Good Ideas

A few good ideas about mak­ing room for the Sav­ior that I’ve received lately:


1. On Christ­mas Eve, Melissa’s fam­ily hangs a red stock­ing for Christ by the fire­place. Every­one writes on a piece of paper what their gift to Jesus is this year and we read them together on Christ­mas morn­ing.  These stay in the stock­ing so we can read them year after year.

2. Anne Marie and her neigh­bors have decided not to buy neigh­bor gifts this year. Instead, the neigh­bors are pool­ing this money together, and they will donate it to a good cause — maybe a fam­ily that needs a lit­tle extra help this Christmas.

3. Tanya’s fam­ily  focuses on one fig­ure in their large nativ­ity set each day. They talk about that per­son, read scrip­tures about him or her, and then add that fig­ure to the dis­play. On Christ­mas Eve, they focus on the Christ Child, and then place Him in His cen­tral place, mak­ing the nativ­ity set complete.

4. And last, but cer­tainly not least, from Mike: “I am try­ing to be a bet­ter hus­band and father.”
I can’t think of a bet­ter way to make room for the Sav­ior than that. Thanks, Mike.

More good ideas to come in the fol­low­ing days.