Christmas is a Serious Celebration Some people get up in the morning with a grouchy outlook.  Not me, I have been blessed with happy genes, and I’m thankful to my Creator for that fact.  In my day-to-day life I seldom realize the value of my happiness. I just live and live and before you know it I’m an old person.  I can be with plenty or without any and still be basically happy. There is, however, a downside to being so upbeat.   However, it’s a good downside. Ever-so-often Almighty God, through His Grace and His Mercy, reveals to me my true depravity, my arrogance, my self-centeredness, my selfishness, my dishonesty, my ability to be so very inconsiderate of others and numerous other self-inflicted flaws.   With the realization of just how horribly depraved that I am, I become more than embarrassed; suicidal would be a more accurate description of the way I feel. It is by His Grace and Mercy that He reveals these things to me. Because, only then will I have the ability to realize a truer value (I say truer, because It’s impossible to know the true value.  The true value is incomprehensible) of His Mercy and His Grace. Only then can I catch a glimpse of the meaning of Christmas and the realization that Christmas is a serious celebration of a serious event in history. My Savior was born! He takes all the pain of guilt that is rightfully mine away.