A child’s letter to God:

“Dear God, Did you think that Christmas would turn out like this when you started it? Love, Wendy, (Age 7).” (1)

That is a profound question. Did God foresee crowded malls, raucous office parties, people congratulating themselves on giving and receiving extravagant gifts—people acting much like Little Jack Horner sitting in a corner, eating his Christmas pie . . .” You remember the rest of the poem, don’t you? “He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plumb and said, WHAT A GOOD BOY AM I.” It’s difficult, isn’t it, to separate some of the gift-giving at Christmas from self-aggrandizement?

Did God foresee all that--and did He send His Son in spite of it all? That really tells us how much God loves us. So much of our current celebration of Christmas is so out of ali…