The Advent of Christmas

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Christmas means so many things, it's hard to define. Phases of emotion corresponding to my age. The unsurpassed anticipation as a child, only to be outdone when it was my turn to be the giver to my children. Oh, how I wanted to make it magic, just like when I was a kid. But it's not about the gifts, is it? It's family and friends, caring and sharing, and most of all, it's about the feeling of Christmas in my heart - that is what I was really looking for.

I was looking to rekindle Advent. The significance of Advent is the preparation for the commemoration of the birth of Jesus.


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I needed a break from the commercial part of the season...where the sacred and the secular collide and are crudely tangled for weeks, where goodwill towards men and generosity struggle with the ugly crassness of consumerism, and where the birth of love into the world is reduced to a rendition of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” in three-part harmony.

In this reflective space of Advent, I focus beyond the headlines to prepare me for this most beautiful celebration. Oh, Advent, I do love thee, where I had begun to light the candles, feeling warmth as a rekindling began in my heart, my heart.

These candles are, but, a small light in the darkness. When the darkness is especially intense, it seems like that small light shines so much brighter. Advent emphasizes to me those smaller moments of light. Those small moments in life. The important little details.

So small and yet, I can begin to feel new possibilities. Sometimes I need a reminder. I can feel the love from here.


Thank you to so many people for reading and supporting me at ths time. Life and work have just gotten in my way,and you are in my thoughts...just letting you know that there is so much love in my heart for all of you.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Shakespeare


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There's such warmth and beauty when we bring the sacred into our celebrations. Lighting candles and making this time of year meaningful on a deeper level is such a gift. 💖

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There really is and sometimes it is a tricky collision of sorts, although, for the sake of both sides of that coin, we have merged while separating it all. It is the religious activity that warms my heart, but, also the people.

Thank you, always, my friend. Your thoughts always run to the deeper side of the river. XO

Love to you.

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Sending you boat loads of love:) Feel it:)

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You know I do. :)) Hope all is well with you and the Boy Pryde. 'Tis the season for all that is merry and bright.

Or has glitter. Love you too XOXO

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Yes it is nice to read something nice about Christmas. I am struggling with how to talk to my kids about this. I was raised in church but walked way but starting to think it was the message but the people that pushed me away. Now I see my kids 5 and 3 and it is all about gifts. I try to teach them it should be about giving but they don't get it. Feel like I did but I grew up poor and they are not facing that. I worked hard so they wouldn't but now how do I get them to know it is not about what you get but what what you give.

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What a nice read. Christmas is so out of control that there is perilously little thought or regard paid to the reason for the celebration.

Christmas for me lives in the quiet part of my heart. It's not marked by cards and presents but by love and remembrance and the changing of the seasons. Yes, that is important to me. I can feel the energy flow from the start of longer days.

Thanks Denise for a lovely tribute to the spirit of Christmas not the practice.

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So many great photos that are simply amazing, but the last one is my fave!

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Thank you. I think its Christmas that does that. :)

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Stay warm abs snuggle your pets or big teddy bear to keep away the cold!

Life has been like surfing on a big wave full of energy and speed! 24 hours a day seems very impractical to me now! There’s so much to finish up and things just keep pulling up! It’s crazy game trying to catch up each day with things in the list! No time to post on a daily basis at present.

Hope you are keeping in excellent health and very fit this winter season.

Take care!

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