My little sister always says that all lights at Christmastime are Christmas lights, since they are lights and it is Christmas. She really does know how to make me laugh.
I love Christmas lights. Just the other evening a friend, my sisters, and I drove around town just to look at the Christmas lights (and take a few pics too). I've always heard that people light up their houses around Christmastime so Santa doesn't miss them. This is a novel idea, but to me people light up their houses for other reasons. To me house are decorated with Christmas lights to light up the world just as the star did that very first Christmas.
If it wasn't for the star that first Christmas the wise men would not have been able to find and be changed by Jesus. That star announced the birth of our Lord to the world.
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 when it rose and have come to worship him."
Matthew 2:1-2
As I enjoy the Christmas lights I remember that very first Christmas and the gift God sent down to us.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
