The Christmas Encounter

<p>Jimmy can play make-believe as well as anybody. So he takes an imaginary trip with Marie to help Santa prepare to deliver toys. In conversation the children learn Santa has a goal of giving the best gifts ever given this year. They help him load the sleigh and make the trip to deliver toys.</p><p>They encounter a falling star knocking them off course and into another time period. Santa recognizes the village below is two thousand years old.</p><p>Suddenly they encounter angels flying to earth with a message for shepherds tending sheep in a field. Curious Santa agrees to follow the light to earth and lands behind the flock of sheep. He fades into the background as they walk into Bethlehem.</p><p>Jimmy remembers Sunday School class and explains to Marie that they will see Mary Joseph and a baby with a manger for His bed. He relates that Jesus is the Son of God and tells why He came.</p><p>Following a short distance behind the make-believe Santa listens to the conversation not only of Jimmy and Marie but also of the shepherds Joseph and Mary. He decides This is the greatest gift ever given and I had nothing to do with it.</p>