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What Do YOU Want For Christmas?By Paul Hayden December 22, 2025Yes, what do you want for Christmas? It's a question asked by parents of their children, on what they might like to receive as Christmas gifts. It was there in my own childhood, as my mom really got into the whole Christmas gift thing. I would be hard-pressed to remember a single specific gift that I received back then. But I remember mom's love and care for our family. Perhaps you have heard that “You become what you focus on.” Notice in that phrase, the word “you” is used twice. Are “you” focused on “you?” In my lifetime, there has been a massive growth of focusing our attention on ourselves. Our "Selfs." You hear that people are searching for themselves. Self-awareness. Self-help. You need to find yourself. You need to believe in yourself. Even that “you need to forgive yourself.” Self! Self!! SELF!!! Maybe that's the problem in all this “self” stuff. Maybe we need to get away from focusing on our “self,” and focus on God and others. If we could truly “help ourselves,” or “forgive ourselves,” then we wouldn't need Jesus or God's love, would we? “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” We celebrate the birth of Jesus, as God reached into the world that He had created, to help mankind be all that He created us for, to be “made in His image,” to be and become sons of the most high God. The "Christmas spirit" is about giving, not “getting.” As Paul quoted our Lord Jesus, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20.35 “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12.1-2 Have a blessed holy-day holiday of Christmas, extending the celebration into the New Year! Embrace those you love, whether near or far, and let them know how much you love them! Know that God loves you more than you can ever fully know! He cares for you! Blessings, and Merry Christmas!
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 Paul Hayden is a Christian believer, and an American patriot, necessarily in that order. He is a student of the Bible, and is avidly interested in our role in the context of history, as understood through the heart and eyes of faith. Paul has lived and traveled somewhat widely, and now lives in the heartland of the U.S. (central Illinois), with his wife Donna - they have five grown children. Since December of 2016, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of www.ConservativeTruth.org."I was raised by a Christian minister, Kenneth Hayden, until his death when I was 10. Then my mom Bonnalee Hunt Hayden married a farmer. So I was raised in a very down-to-earth home. My faith has grown through the years, but both in conjunction with the institutional church and through small groups and individuals, including books as well as group settings, where deep, sincere faith is shared that aligns with Biblical truth."
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