A four-year-old boy was watching his mother change the baby. When she overlooked sprinkling the baby's backside with baby powder and hurriedly put him into his diaper, the four-year-old hollered, "Hey, Mom, you forgot to salt him!"

Have you ever noticed how babies can turn ordinarily intelligent men and women into complete morons as they make all those googley noises and funny faces? I've often wondered what the babies think of it all. This is Christmas eve, the season of the baby, the Christ child. Babies equal hope, they equal the future, and they spice up our lives.

I. A MOTHER'S EXCITEMENT

This IS the season of the baby, the season of the birth of Christ. And in one sense, Christ did come to spice up and season our lives. He calls us to us to be the salt of the earth just as He is the…