Christmas Began with a Baby

I love this quote about the true meaning of Christmas by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. "At the focal point of all human history, a point illuminated by a newstar in the heavens revealed for just such a purpose, probably no othermortal watched--none but a poor young carpenter, a beautifulvirgin mother, and silent stabled animals who had not the power to utterthe sacredness they had seen. Shepherds would soon arrive and later, wisemen from the East. Later yet the memory of that night would bring SantaClaus and Frosty and Rudolph--and all would be welcome. But firstand forever there was just a little family, without toys or trees ortinsel. With a baby--that's how Christmas began."Itis for this baby that we shout in chorus: 'Hark! the herald angels singGlory to the newborn King! . . . Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them secondbirth' (Hymns, no. 209)."