How do you feel about Christmas? Love it? Hate it?

Posted by: Rainbow

17th Nov 2011 04:22pm

Do you wish Christmas would come and go quickly or do you look forward to it with great enthusiasm? Do you believe Christmas has lost its meaning given all the materialistic connotations associated with it or does it still have a special place in your heart?

sherri

22nd Nov 2011 04:49pm

Ah Ziah -I am the opposite - though our reasoning is the same!

Now that I am child-free, (kids are 'launched' and interstate) I am free from having to 'opt in' to Christmas - alhough occasionally I do get pressured in as the 'extra' at someone else's table because THEY can' t cope with the idea of me being on my own. I HATE being the 'pity invite' but is hard to refuse because it is impossible to explain why without sounding churlish.

I do have some friends whose company I would enjoy, but then I know that I am welcome because I am always welcome - and the invitation is because they genuinely want my company. TOTALLY different motivation. But I am also quite happy with my own company. Far preferable to anything that is 'make do'

And sadly I have a much greater sense of God's presence at other times of the year when there are many fewer 'glittery things' to distract and we don't 'try so hard' to 'manufacture' a sense of holiness. (Cynical aren't I - but I just can't find 'Silent Night' in amongst all the business )

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