If Jesus is no more than a scripted characterization or a splendid example, mostly looked upon as a baby in a manger during Christmas time. Or if Santa claus is like the wise men, deeming that all children are to be the recipients of gifts. Then, we can add the Easter Bunny (as we have), a leprechaun or two, or even a spooky, yet pleasant imagination of ghosts and goblins. Yes, with adding candy, anything is possible to look forward to ...even a nightmarish Halloween.

Yes, loving our children helps them to understand ...yet, that's not all they need to understand about love.

To me, nothing else comes close to the love of God.  In believing in Him, and seeing that He sent us Jesus ...how more convinced of His love could we be??

And there's nothing more beautiful and loving  ...as it is in reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Yet, First Corinthians, Chapter 13, is usually called the Love Chapter.  And people usually begin with verse 4, and recite some version of: "Love is patient; love is kind ..."