Are you also very busy preparing for the big birthday party? What birthday party? You might ask. Oh, yes, sorry - probably you, too, do not remember why at all we are celebrating this party. After all, the original happenings are so far in the past, no wonder that one hardly cares for them any more. Everything changes, everything is always becoming more modern, is being adapted to the ideas and needs of nowadays society.

Most of the streets and shops are decorated already. We see sparkling stars, and candles, green fir trees with red apples and ribbons all over. We are expecting Santa Claus riding through the skies with his sleigh, and we are especially happy when snow falls. White Christmas, that it is what makes things really romantic.

Ah - you might think now. Romance - here comes the connection, or what else should be the reason for setting reflections on Christmas on a site which is entitled "Love".

No! It might be romantic to sit in front of a warm chimney with candle light and with somebody next whom we love, while outside silently snowflakes are falling, and nature is gradually being transferred into a fairy tale scenery. But this has got nothing to do with Christmas, definitely not!

And yet Christmas has very much got to do with love. God the creator of the universe loves us, the human beings. God is a perfect God, and thus does not tolerate anything not fully perfect next to him. Yet we humans repeatedly are making mistakes. None of us is always behaving correctly. So there is no way for us to get close to God.

For this reason God had a glorious plan: He sent his only Son into the world. His Son, Jesus, was sent to us in order to save us and to enable us to approach God again.

In the first verses of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Bible we read: "When all things began, the Word already was. The Word dwelt with God, and what God was, the Word was."

Some verses later we read: "So the Word became flesh (= like a human being); he came to dwell among us, and we saw his glory, such glory as befits the Father's only son, full of grace and truth."

This means that Christmas is a birthday party. We celebrate the day when God's Son, Jesus, was born. Christmas should not be more than that, but it should definitely not be less!

A detailed description of all the circumstances in connection with the birth of Jesus you find in the first chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. A more philosophic description you find in the first chapter of the Gospel of John.

Perhaps you will find some calm moments within the next future. Then take your time, open your Bible and read about Jesus and everything that happened when he was born. It is very exciting, and it really is worth it.

Here you also find more about God’s love.

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