Every year at Christmas time I try to find ways to make the season more about Christ. A few years back I studied the people in the scriptures who looked forward to the birth of Christ. I loved the idea and made a list of scriptures to read on chronological order. Each day we read one scripture and, as we awaited Christmas Day, we thought of the people who also waited for the birth of Christ. It made the season exciting! As we read further, the time between the stories and Christ’s birth became shorter and shorter. In some way, because the time before Christmas was growing shorter for us, it was easier to imagine how their excitement must have grown.
After that year, I decided I loved the idea so much that I made a little book for our family on Blurb.com with those scriptures and pictures to go with them. Now we have the rule that we have to read our daily Christmas scripture before we get the candy from our advent calendar 🙂 It’s been so fun and I was thinking of a way I could share the book with my new blog readers (I posted it a couple years ago when I first made it) and I remembered I had the book in pdf form! Hooray!
So, I know it’s well into December, but if you’d like to join us in our December readings, you can download the book I made by clicking here. (the book is made to with a scripture on one side of the page and a picture on the other. To see the pages together on your PDF, open the file in Adobe Acrobat and go to View>Page Display> Two-up ) I’ve also posted a Blurb preview of it- you can read the entire book that way as well. Hope it brings your Christmas season a closer to Christ!
** just a side note- usually when I made religious things for this blog I try to make them non-denominational Christian so more people can enjoy them. Because I originally made this book for me, it includes scriptures from the Book of Mormon as well. (A scripture used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) I can assure you that the Book of Mormon scriptures are just as Christian as the Bible verses! Still, I’m sorry if this make it harder for you to use. Hopefully you can still enjoy reading the verses from the King James Version of the Bible that we all share.**