" Christmas is about…Jesus’ Birthday, giving to others, reindeer, and Santa!" This little essay came home in our first grader's schoolwork folder last Friday.  Our youngest, Levi, is only six years old.  Just about the most adorable thing ever, right?  Doesn't seeing a child remember the true meaning of Christmas want to melt your heart? It wasn't until later, Saturday evening, just three weeks from the excitement of Christmas Eve, that he showed me his assignment.  In school, the class was asked to complete the following prompt:  "Christmas is about..."  Essays are to be reprinted in our local paper, The Morgan Messenger, and posted in the hallways at the school. What you see above, is exactly how his paper was returned home.  However, I can barely bring myself to relay what an adult has added to his paper.  You see... something...,  something very disturbing happened to the creation of my child's heartfelt telling of what Christmas is to him.  Something has been … [Read more...]