Top Ten Ways
To Enjoy Christmas

Christmas Cards

Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Gift Giving

Christmas Trees

Christmas Stockings Tradition

Mistletoe Tradition

Is Santa Real

Star of Bethlehem

Virgin Birth of Jesus

Celebrating Advent Tradition

Letter From God to His Children

Christmas Gift Giving Tradition

Several months after Jesus Christ was born, wise men came and presented gifts to Him.
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked,
‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?

We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.’
On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh"
(Matthew 2:1-2, 11).

Just as the wise men gave costly gifts to the Holy Child without hope of anything in return, parents can lead sons and daughters to purchase gifts for elderly loved -ones and neighbors who may be less fortunate.

These gifts need not be costly, but they should be given with thought, care, and love.
Children who receive a lot of gifts might be encouraged to give a few of them to children in homeless shelters or children’s hospitals.
This is the true spirit of Christmas gift giving.

The custom of giving to the needy was one of the legendary traditions of Boxing Day which is celebrated the first weekday after Christmas in many countries.
On Boxing Day, employers gave their servants boxes of food and other necessities and public workers such as mailmen were remembered by the people they served.
Some traditions hold that money was taken from church collection boxes and distributed to the disadvantaged.

The giving of gifts is a wonderful expression of the love and good will that surrounds the Christmas season. Ultimately, gift giving at Christmas should be done in remembrance of the greatest gift of all -- Jesus Christ the Son, the gift of the Father.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life”
(John 3:16).