How Our Family Lights The World For Christmas

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How Our Family Lights The World For Christmas

Light The World is a great campaign that is held every December. Our family has participated in this project over the years ourselves, so I am especially excited to share today’s post with you.

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Every December, we look forward to celebrating the birth of our Savior. While we do our best on a daily basis to show Christlike behavior, during the holiday season we make an extra effort to let our light shine (Matt. 5: 14-16).

We find that the holidays are a time when people more readily seek out opportunities to serve others and to notice service. It is also a time when people may feel more lonely or sad and need that extra kindness.

How better to show our love for the Savior than by sharing that love with others?

Light the World

For the past few years, our family has participated in the Light the World campaign.

#LightTheWorld is an invitation to everyone, regardless of religious affiliation or beliefs, to make the Christmas season one about serving others.

For us, it is a reminder of how Christ served each of us and how “when [we] are in the service of our fellow beings [we] are in the service of . . . God.” (Mosiah 2:17) It is about uplifting those around you.

Small and Simple Things

One of the things I love about Light the World is that it is all about small acts that truly make an impact.

As homeschoolers, the holidays can be a hectic time as we are either finishing up or trying to catch up on schoolwork. We often do not have a lot of extra time to participate in huge service projects.

But we can easily fit in the small actions each day to Light the World.

Doing things like telling the next person who texts you something you appreciate about them or offering a prayer of only gratitude are all things that are simple yet impactful.

They are also easy enough that all members of our family can participate. This is important to us since we have a wide range of ages.

I also like that it is daily. We do our best to make an effort each day to find some way to Light the World.

This year you can sign up for text reminders, where they also send a daily suggestion. Sometimes we follow the suggestion and sometimes we come up with our own.

Related – Read about the Printable Light The World Calendar For Kids I created. Or just skip to the good part and download your kid’s calendar now!

Little Lamb of Bethlehem

One of the ways we make Light the World fun for our younger kids is by incorporating our Little Lamb of Bethlehem.

Little Lamb of Bethlehem is a Christ-centered alternative to Elf on the Shelf. Instead of a mischievous elf getting into mayhem, we have a sweet little lamb who brings us our service reminder.

Our older kids help in creating the cards and sometimes we might “hide” Lamby, but mostly she is put somewhere that will help us remember to look for and do our activity.

#LightTheWorld Share Goodness

As we have participated in Light the World the past few years we find we get less distracted by the “things” of Christmas.

As we focus on the Savior and helping others to feel His light, we draw closer to Christ.

Our Christmas season feels less hectic and we experience that joy that comes from serving others.

Our children begin looking for other ways they can share goodness with those around them.

I love watching as they focus on others and ways they can uplift those around them. It shifts the focus from what they want for Christmas, to what they can give. And it shows them that the gifts that truly matter, the ones that mean the most, are often not bought at a store, but given from the heart.

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How Our Family Lights The World For Christmas