31 Days of Christmas – Day #2

Stars In The Window

During World War II, all across America, banners were hung in the windows of homes where young men had gone off to service. One blue star for each son who left, and a gold one if he wasn’t coming home. One evening, a young boy was walking down the street with his father. The stars and banners caught his eye and after a time, he began counting them.
“One star in that window,” he announced, “and one in the next.”
He clapped his little hands and shouted, “Oh , look, Daddy! There are 3 stars at that house.” He ran up and down the avenue pointing out stars and pulling his daddy along.
Then they got to one house that puzzled him. “Look at that big house. It has lots of windows, but there’s not one star. Not even one. Why, Daddy?”
The father thought for a moment and then replied, “I guess they didn’t have a son to send.” Daddy was getting the feeling that his little boy was too young to understand the meaning of all those service stars anyway. After all, how does one explain to a 5-year-old the lonliness, hopes and fears on the other side of those stars in the windows?
Then they came to a vacant lot. There was no house and no windows in which to hang service banners. But in the distance was a stretch of sky where one evening star was brightly glowing.
The little boy shouted, “Oh, look! Look! There’s one star in God’s window. That means God gave a Son, too!”
Then noticing the gold color of the star, he added, “That means His Son died.”

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son; that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.”(John 3:16)