Posted on 12/20/2016 8:05:10 AM PST by Kaslin
Lazy, yes. And also depends on where you live. Here if you put decorations out they’re stolen. Nothing is sacred anymore.
It’s one thing to not enjoy stringing up the lights, it’s another when you humble brag that “you celebrate everyday” unlike we “secular” rubes out here. But whatever, not worth the argument.
Winter can be brutal and bleak in northern states-Christmas lights add an atmosphere of celebration to and otherwise dark and cold season. For that reason I like them. I wish we had more, but for now we have only candles in the windows and lights on the tree and railing inside.
Maybe next year I can convince my husband to put up lights on the exterior of the house. I can’t do it myself-he bought a Little Giant ladder and it’s too heavy for me to use!
Mr. Douglas, I agree, although I do celebrate because my family does. The few I’ve spent alone, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. I also celebrate Jesus all year and am very grateful for what his coming has meant to me personally, and to humanity as a whole. But I dread December every year and just wince through the whole month. I also get much poorer! Maybe I’m just at that age (bah humbug sixties).
But I guess that that is not the point of this article. :)
I fondly remember the Christmas decorations everywhere on homes,businesses and the towns light poles in the 1960s and 1970s;then they began to slowly disappear under pressure from the ACLU and other humbugs.Cities also claimed it cost too much. Now locally, there are colorless white lights along most streets for the Winter Festival.Although the bright spots are do cities did have quite nice displays in the parks.
I couldn’t agree more. I think of that verse in the Old Testament where the Lord says, “I hate your festivals and feasts.” I do think he honors Christmas for those who acknowledge it for what it’s supposed to be, though.
People can’t see our house because we are on a hill, and we are a ways from the road. However, you can just make out the top of our house from the road. I’ve thought of surprising my wife with a lit 5 foot star to place up there. The problem is that we only get two or three cars driving by per day, if that. And one of them is the mail man.
I do think he honors Christmas for those who acknowledge it for what it’s supposed to be, though.
I agree with that. It’s why I’m in the Choir on Wednesday. :-)
New York City is one of the most pathologically secular places in the U.S., but it's really a sight to behold at Christmas time.
That would be a sweet thing to do for your wife. It might be worth it if one of those three cars had a child like my three year old in it. She gasps with delight and says “Christmas lights!” at every single decorated house we see. Every house, every time, every day.
We go to “Celebrate The Light” every year; a local family donates their large yard and the electricity for a huge drive through Christmas light display that is set to music (on the radio), on weekends they have drive in Christmas movies, and there is an ice skating rink. It’s all a fundraiser for the Salvation Army. Our daughter will probably pass out from excitement there!
Reminds me of an old cartoon from fifty five years ago. A man is on his knees in front of a Christmas decoration. he says to his wife...”To YOU they are THREE WISE MEN! To Me they are the PATRON SAINTS OF ADVERTISING!”
I never understood the need to go out in November and catch pneumonia putting up Christmas decorations, just so I could catch Pneumonia in January taking them down!
My wife loves Christmas and decorating!
There is a correlation between displays of flags and Christmas lights in our neighborhood. There have been many more flags since election day.
Now choirs I love!
With the election, I feel more hopeful.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
no traditions....
Is Christmas still legal?
As a Christian, I sort of get what you're saying--Jesus should be in our lives every day.
Still, even the Bible recognizes that there are seasons. Much like our agrarian past, there's a time to reap and a time to sow.
As a Catholic, I single out some particularly special seasons and prepare for them. We don't just spring Christmas or Easter out of the blue; we prepare during Advent and Lent. The seasons don't end on Christmas or Easter either. These preparation and celebration periods lend themselves to traditions such as fasting, reconciling, and praising the Lord through song and hymns, and there's certainly a number of popular culture traditions as well.
I'm not going to tell you how to pray to, or recognize God, but for me, those traditions are not just niceties. They support the cyclical nature of us as human beings-being born, living and dying, working and resting, and so on.
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