You can start seeing this dawning recognition,

33 years before the crucifixion,

but even the birth of the Christ child began to change them and everything around them.

And I think that's the big idea I want us to hold in this conversation

is that when Christmas becomes Christmas, when it becomes more than what's been handed down

in our traditions or more than what we see in the department stores or more than what we

see sung about on the Christmas special on TV.

It does change everything.

It changed everything 2,000 years ago, and it changes everything. Now it changed everything in the original character stories,

and it changes everything in our stories.

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Welcome to God Hears Her. I'm Erin Eddy.

And I'm Elisa Morgan. The Christmas season often brings feelings of joy and excitement.

You know, I know it does for me. But today, I want to go deeper and talk about how Christmas changes everything.

Get your Bibles out and join us for a conversation about Christmas you don't want to miss

on this episode of God Here's Her.

Aaron, if I ask you this question, I want you to roll your memories back as far as they go. Probably you're a child of some age. And I want to

hear descriptions using all of your senses, okay, taste and see and hear and hear and touch

and smell. Okay. What does Christmas mean to you from as far back as you can

remember what it looked like, smell like, feel like for you? So Christmas looked like a lot of nutcrackers.

We collected nutcrackers. And you're not talking about people. You're talking about the

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