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     Every family has traditions connected with Christmas.  Our family has several.  One of my favorites is watching all of our Christmas movies.  My dh and I are what you might call movie buffs.  We both really enjoy a good movie.  Our standards are quite high.  We especially like movies that we can watch as a family.  We do not have any kind of TV hookup, so all we watch are videos and DVDs. 

     So, every year at the beginning of December, we pull out the Christmas movies.  Most of them are on video, because we have had them longer than DVDs have been in existence.  There is the usually fare--It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, A Christmas Carol, etc. 

     Last night we saw one we haven't in a few years.  It is called The Christmas Box.  My grandmother gave me the book to read years ago.  (She is a fellow bookaholic: it must be genetic.)  I absolutely love the book and the message in it.  The movie doesn't quite give the book justice, but it is a very good story in its own right.  The message is another reminder of what this season is really about.  It isn't about the "stuff" surrounding the event.  It is about that baby born 2 millenia ago, so that he might become the perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world.  It is about the love of a Father giving the thing most precious to Him: His only Son.  May we all remember and rejoice in that special gift this Christmas.