Jesus' Birthday Cake

There are so many special things that happen during this season. I want to share my favorite one in our home. In addition to pumpkin pie, at our house on Christmas Day we bake a birthday cake for Jesus.

Then we decorate it and each person gets to put a candle on the cake. Around the Christmas dinner table, we all sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and blow out the candles together. That's what Jesus does with our sins. Completely gone.

Now this next part is my favorite: We each take a piece of cake, reserving one piece of cake for Jesus. Then we pass around Jesus' piece and each take a small piece. We wait until each person has a piece and then eat it together. It is a time of communion with our loving God and each other.

May your Christmas be blessed with peace, joy, forgiveness and communion in your home as you remember Jesus, the greatest nomad who ever left one place and came to another.