I purchased a book at Time out for Women by Emily Freeman
called “A Christ-Centered Christmas” and started reading it last week. She takes
seven points from the birth of Christ and helps us apply them to our Holiday season.
We started early and are doing one point each week for FHE, and an extra two
during the week until Christmas.
Last night we started with the first point, Mary the mother
of Jesus. It talks about her sacrifice and what she might have been thinking.
It says “she pondered these things in her heart” so I used that in my lesson
last night. We talked about what pondering was, that Christmas is Jesus
birthday, and that we need to ponder about him. At the end of each chapter she
gives a song, scripture, and an activity that applies that we sang for FHE and then gives the main points
of the chapter for a lesson. The song was Silent Night. The scriptures were Luke 1:25-56 and Luke 2:5-7, 19. The activity she provided was to make a heart
ornament and hang it on the Christmas tree or make heart shaped cookies. We collected red paper and cut out
a heart. Then we punched a hole and used string to hang it on the tree. It is
the first ornament and I think I like that tradition. Stay tuned to tomorrow, I think we will have
another lesson today that I can share with you!
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