Christmas Day Table Talk

What does Christmas mean to you ?  What should people do on Christmas Day ? Telling the story of Christmas.  

As we look at the Scriptures :  Luke 1:26 - 36 : Now in the sixth month [ after that ], the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth,  To a girl never having been married and a virgin engaged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David: and the virgin's name was Mary.

And he came to her and said, Hail, O favoured one [ endued with grace]! The Lord is with you !  Blessed {favoured of God ) are you before all women !  But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled and disturbed and confused at what he said and kept revolving in her mind what such a greeting might mean.  And the Angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace ( free, spontaneous, absolute favor and loving-kindness) with God.  And listen ! You will become pregnant pregnant  and will give birth to a Son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

He will be great  ( eminent ) and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the LORD God will give to Him the throne of His forefather David.  And he will reign over the house of Jacob throughout the ages;  and of His reign there will be no end.  [ Isaiah 9:6, 7 Daniel 2:44.]

And Mary said to the Angel, How can this be, since I have no intimacy with any man as a husband ?  Then the angel said to her ,  The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most high will overshadow you [ like a shinning cloud]; and so the holy (pure sinless) Thing (Offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God.  [Exodus 40:34; Isaiah 7:14]  And listen your relative Elizabeth in her old age has....