Christmas memories: 'Look for Him'

My Christmas experiences are probably comparable to many of yours. Year after year, I love the lights, cards, stories, scriptural accounts, acts of service and beautiful Christmas music. Each, in its small way, reminds me and personalizes the birth of my Savior and what this great gift means to me in my daily and eternal life.

As a teenager, I memorized various Christmas stories and would sometimes be asked to share these stories at ward Christmas parties. There was one story that I still remember; it continues to guide my thoughts whenever I think of my relationship with my Savior.

In this story, events of the first Christmas, the Crucifixion and Resurrection are recounted fictionally, in a “first-person” narrative. The person telling the story is the innkeeper who initially sent the holy family away but then, reluctantly, found room for them in his stable.

In the story, years go by and this same innkeeper finds himself in Jerusalem soon after Jesus is crucified. He learns of the cruel death and miraculous resurrection of a man named “Jesus.” He comes to recognize that the man so many are speaking of was the grown child of that pleading couple who came to his inn in Bethlehem many years earlier in such desperate need. This man, Jesus, had been born in his stable. See the rest of this story at ldschurchnews.com.