Toltec,
Psalms 50-5 Gather to me my consecrated ones who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
50-14 Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the most high.
50-15 And call apon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you and you will honor me.
116-12 How can I repay the Lord for all His kindness to me?
116-17 I will sacrifice a thank offering to you.
118-17 I will not die but live.
118-24 This is the day the Lord has made.
119-62 At midnight I rise to give you thanks.
119-46 I have called out to you, save me! And I will keep your statutes.
God made Jesus. Jesus was born on Christmas. Ergo Christmas is the day the Lord made. And the sacrifice is made on that day. That is why Patsy chose Christmas. But she had a problem. She had to rise at midnight to give the thanks. If she rose at midnight of the 24th/25th to do it she would miss Christmas day. So she rose at midnight the 25th/26th did it (technically the 26th) and then had the tombstone read the 25th to keep the statutes.
Notice the importance of delivery in The Psalms and the inordinate use of the word in the ransom note. Also, notice the importance of saving and calling in The Psalms and the mention of calling in the note and the acronym interpretation SAVED by the cross.
Patsy mentions the importance of her 40th birthday in DOI. The Christmas of '96 was the last Christmas before her 40th and JonBenet's 7th. The number 40 is important to the Judeo/Christian religion as marking a time of probation, trial, initiation and death. There are forty days of Lent, Christ's days in the wilderness, days of the resurrection, from Easter to Ascention, forty days of Moses on Sanai, Elijah in hiding, the deluge, the years the Jews wandered in the wilderness, reign of David, reign of Solomon and more. In Mithraism, which forshadowed Christianity, forty is the number of days of initiation rites and of festivals and sacrifice.
Traditionally human life goes in cycles of seven. The transition from the 6th year to the 7th marks the infant leaving the sphere of influence of the mother to become a child in the world.
These kinds of "synchronicities" are very attractive to certain mindsets. And Patsy's predilection for synchronicities is evident by the use of the acronym and then leaving The Bible open to a passage in The Psalms with a verse whose four lines begin the letters CTBS.
She had to do it that Christmas or lose the all important synchronistic connections. Such pressure! Poor baby.