A birthday cake for Jesus

**sunshine** · 12-01-2003, 04:41 PM

I saved this a few years ago- sorry I don't know where it came from.

A BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR JESUS

Aside from a Christian background and a stable home where love and
discipline go hand in hand to shape their values, one of the greatest
gifts we can give our children is to create family traditions. These
simple experiences, which occur year after year, develop valuable
memories. I'd like to share just one of our Christmas traditions with
you.

>Because Christmas is Jesus' Birthday, we celebrate it like we would
anyone else's. But His birthday cake has special symbolic meaning.

1. The shape of the cake is round representing God's unending love
for us.

a. Bottom Layer - BLACK (Chocolate) representing the fact that all
men have sinned. This is the reason Jesus came to earth.

b. Center Layer - RED (Red Velvet, Strawberry or Cherry flavored with
red food coloring) symbolizing Jesus' blood that was shed for our sin.

c. Top Layer - GREEN (Pistachio flavor with green coloring) denoting
the new life we have in Christ after our sins have been washed away.

2. The frosting is pure WHITE standing for the righteousness and
purity of Christ.

3. A border of RED hearts stands for the brothers and sister united in
Christ circling the earth as His witnesses.

4. On the top is a GOLD (or Yellow) star typifying the star that shone
heralding His birth and lighting the way to where it had taken place.
This should be a six-pointed Star of David. Six is the number of man
that showed us that the Grace of God includes us all - not only the
Jewish people whose Messiah is our Savior.

5. In the center of the top is one large RED candle representing Jesus
who came into the dark world to bring it light and truth.

We gather around with the cake in the center and each person is
given a smaller GREEN candle. Dad or Mom reads the Christmas
story out of Luke, or some of the children who have memorized it
recite it. Then we light the large RED candle and sing Happy Birthday
to Jesus.

After everyone takes their smaller GREEN candle and light it from the
middle one representing Jesus, they put it in the top of the cake. This
represents the fact that we all are to be the light of the world. We
sing
"Silent Night". Someone prays, thanking God for sending His Son.
We blow out the candles and proceed with our Christmas Celebration.

**Guest1** · 12-01-2003, 05:09 PM

We do this every Christmas too! It's become one of the kiddos favorite traditional thing to do! Thanks for posting it!

**guest2** · 12-01-2003, 05:32 PM

Trying this again, my last post is out there in cyber space somewhere! ughhh! We do something similar, but we use and angel food cake and cool whip to frost it. We sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and light the huge candle that we place in the center fo the ring. We've been doing this since the boys were babies!