On this Christmas morning I have been sipping coffee and thinking back on past Christmas! Looking at the holiday carousel I gave my Mom when I was very young and realizing how much I miss those long ago mornings with Mom and Daddy, pictures of my beautiful daughters in there little red dresses and photos of dear friends from years of celebrations! Christmas is all about the memories we share - parties, food, friends, family, music, good times and some sad times like Christmases marked by loneliness or loss of a loved one. Christmas is like a great magnifier that examines our life and makes everything – good and bad - seem larger. I’m happy to say, this Christmas, all is good in our home! Every year someone will invariably proclaim disgust regarding the commercialization of Christmas, but I generally ignore these proclamations. Commercialism doesn’t diminish Christmas. It’s rarely the presents or shopping or decorations that we recall in our Christmas memories. It’s always the people we remember, and the experiences shared with people! These become our Christmas memories… the affirmation of a child’s imagination, school pageants, singing Christmas carols, little hands gripping the banister during the rush downstairs on Christmas morning, family dinners and gatherings, the first Christmas away from home, the first Christmas in a new home… these are the things we remember, and it’s the warmth of these experiences that generate meaning and cause us to continue to look forward to Christmas year after year. You may be a friend we met just this year, a relative/friend we’ve known all our lives, or you may be someone we’ve not spoken to in a long time - but know if we saw you tomorrow we could pick up where we left off as if time and distance never separated us. Heather and I wish you a very Merry Christmas. May God bless you and those whom you love during the coming New Year.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 15:02:51 +0000
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