After writing the Advent devotion in the previous post, I saw a Christmas poem my mother had written, and I thought it made a MUCH better devotion. So I used it in the following devotion. However, I didn’t get my mother’s permission first. (Mother, is it okay???):

Advent Wreath

Scripture: For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:34 (New Revised Standard)

One Christmas when my younger brother, David, was four years old, he asked my mother, “Are we going to sing ‘Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus’?”

Mother thought about David’s question and wrote this poem for Jesus’ birthday:

Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus

Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus
Today with festive fare
We celebrate Your birthday,
With music in the air!

Cakes are baked and waiting
Candles light the tree
Gifts are wrapped and ribboned
Is there no gift for Thee?

Jesus, on Thy birthday morning
I kneel before Thy creche and see
Love incarnate, God’s gift
And bring myself to Thee

~Ruth Baird Shaw~

Prayer: Our Heavenly Father, in the hustle and bustle of the holidays, help us focus on the real treasure in our lives - the gift of your Son. Help us to be quiet and to kneel and bring ourselves to you. Amen.

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