After coming home from a Christmas Eve party at a friend's house, my parents and I decided to watch "White Christmas." It was soon getting late and we had just barely finished wrapping all the presents and putting the Christmas stockings out. It was actually approaching midnight when I suggested we do two more things; two things we did as a family every year on Christmas Eve: First, read the Christmas story in the scriptures. Second, each person gets to open one present.
My parents were feeling more tired than I was, so I read the three scripture passages that make up the true Christmas story in the scriptures: Luke 2:1-20 (the most well-known Christmas passage); Matthew 2:1-12 (the three wise men); and 3 Nephi 1:4-23 (the Book of Mormon tells of how the ancient American people knew of the birth of Jesus Christ). I love those passages. They center me on the reason for the Christmas season.
Oh, and the present was nice, too. :) I am grateful for my family's Christmas Eve traditions.
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