How would you define Christmas?
People have a lot to say about Christmas. Just google “quotes about Christmas” and you’ll discover all sorts of things that people think about Christmas.
I happen to like what Dale Evans had to say:
“Christmas, my child, is love in action.”
One brief sentence. Seven simple words. But if you look closer, there’s a life-changing Truth tucked inside.
One specific way I define Christmas is by choosing to slow down. To focus on family and friends. To step back from the busyness of life, which gets all the busier during the holidaze.
My choices define Christmas as significant — more than falalalala and decking the halls that will be taken down and packed away in a few short weeks.
I’ll be blogging again in January 2020. I’ll miss connecting with you and look forward to our conversations in the new year. Until then, I wish you an “all is calm” Christmas.
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We run and chase the Godly prize
in a world where’s faith’s gone dry;
but the meaning of true Christmas lies
with those among us, marked to die.
The weeks of Advent are the hope
that animates they who weep, forlorn,
and in the season find the scope
that hearts may be one day reborn.
Perhaps there’s care, after all;
existential is not what it seemed.
In the words of Luke, a clarion call
that vain belief might be redeemed.
Perhaps, beyond the darkling night
there lies another morning Light.
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Good morning, my friend.
I know you see things from a different perspective — a clearer perspective than most. Suffering does that — and may we each allow these days of Advent draw us closer to the love that is the Truth of Christmas.
Merry CHRISTmas Ms. Beth. We’ll miss your wisdom and insight, but will be carrying the many lessons you’ve taught this year with us. See you next year ma’am. 🙂 I know; it’s so corny it’s cute. God’s blessings.
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J.D.: I wish you the best of Christmas, friend! And I look forward to talking with you in the new year. 🙂
Merry Christmas Beth. Christmas is about time with family, reflection on the Birth of Christ in word and worship.
A paragraph from a poem I wrote several years ago reminds me that Jesus didn’t stay in the manger.
“The Nations one day will rise
To worship this babe who lies
His little head upon the hay
One day where thorns will lay”
—Daphne Woodall
Blessings for you till next year.
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Thank you for sharing part of the poem, Daphne. Merry Christmas to you, friend.
“Let every heart prepare Him room.” This simple lyric is defining my Christmastime for 2019. It dovetails well with your choices for the December holidaze (love that rendering of the word, by the way).
Thank you, Beth, for this year’s quotes and insights to ponder. May you find refreshment in simplifying for a few weeks. And may we all soak up the wonder of Emmanuel and be His love in action.
Love and blessed Christmas from the Pacific Northwest.
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Emmanuel … I love this name of God.
God with us.
I love the miraculous Truth wrapped up in that one Word.
And thank you for the reminder to let our hearts prepare room for Him.
Merry Christmas, my friend.
Dear Beth,
This is a wonderful definition of Christmas. Blessings on your holiday time with family and friends.
Merry Christmas ~ Wendy Mac
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Much love to you, friend. Merry Christmas.