I hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Our family had a great celebration as we were visited by family from Maine.  Too bad we can’t see them more often.

Now that Thanksgiving is past, our two kids, Andrew and Emmy, are crazy with excitement over Christmas.   I worked from my home office today, and there was a continuous stream of Christmas music playing.  Andrew is hooked on the Beach Boys Christmas CD, and he must have played one particular song 20 times!

I really like the Christmas season, but have to admit I’m a bit of a fuddy duddy.  Like many Christians I feel a certain “conflictedness” over the mixed messages of Christmas.  There’s the message of the generic “peace on earth” as well as the fun and games message of Santa Claus.  To me there’s only one real message, and that is the message of the King of the Universe, Jesus Christ, coming to Earth to forgive us of our sins.

The Apostle Paul summed it up nicely in I Timothy 1:15 when he said, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief”.  The Apostle knew the real meaning of Christmas.  He understood the gravity of his sin and corruption, and basically referred to himself as the worst sinner of all.

Elsewhere in the New Testament Paul talks about Jesus by saying, “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.  Therefore God has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which above all names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”.

Friends, that is the best news ever, and is the real message of Christmas.  The King of Kings, Creator of the world, took the form of a baby, lived among mankind sinlessly, and was executed for something He didn’t do so you and I could become children of God.  He loves you so much that He was willing to die for what you did so you can live with Him forever.

That’s the message of Christmas, and that’s why Busy Bees exists.  Yes, we want to deliver an outstanding and well rounded preschool education, but most of all we want each student at Busy Bees Christian PreSchool to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

Thanks for reading.

Scott McClymonds

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