But at least a billion people today consider themselves to be followers of Jesus Christ and celebrate that reality every Christmas. If Jesus is not the Christ of your life, celebrating the birth of an obscure Jewish carpenter's son is ultimately meaningless. H stands for history. That God cloaked himself in human flesh is a verifiable historical fact. While many still debate the meaning of Christ's life, few question its historicity.
R stands for rejoice.
Christmas songs demonstrate that rejoicing has always been the focal point of Christmas. We rejoice not for earthly vanities, but for eternal verities. A gift of gold may last until we die. The gift of God will last for all eternity. I stands for incarnation, a word which describes that glorious event in which God became man.