Comments on: where are you christmas?

By: La Yen

La Yen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:13:11 +0000

Advent calendars and receiving the Christmas cards. That’s all I need.

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:41:52 +0000

Snow is it. Really. That’s all it takes for me.

But if I have to add more: logs on the fire (one of the reasons I bought this house- real fire, real fireplace!) gingerbread anything; and, of course, the music.

I love this post (sorry it took me so long to get here) and I love that the awareness of the one for whom the holiday is named makes much of the year like Christmas in the heart.

By: Carrot Jello

Carrot Jello — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:11:24 +0000

I haven’t found what does it for me yet.

By: Leah Jean

Leah Jean — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:03:28 +0000

This post is exactly what I’ve been trying to describe to people for the past three days. Christmas is not Christmas without a real winter wonderland.

It’s also the lights. Without the twinkling colors the season feels a little empty. It’s turning off all the lights in the house and still being able to see everything clearly, distorted by reds and greens and golds and blues.

There’s a Christmas episode of Grey’s Anatomy where they lie under the Christmas tree just to watch the lights twinkle and smell the pine. And that’s exactly what the non-sacred, yet still imperative feeling of Christmas is for me.

By: Geo

Geo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:07:10 +0000

What starts Christmas for me? It’s the music. I mean the real soul music of the season. I don’t have much of a collection myself, unless you count Sufjan Stevens, so I listen to KBYU-FM as much as I can. That’s what stirs my heart every year now, and what I miss most when Christmas is past.

By: Klin

Klin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:30:53 +0000

My Christmas Tree and the planning of the parties and Christmas Eve meal. It’s a candle light dinner in honor of Christ. My kids look forward to it and keep talking about it.

The snow helps. I prefer to be done with snow by January, but love it in December.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

By: b.

b. — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:50:15 +0000

I think your daughter said it best…
“Christmas music is so lame without snow!!!–grrr!”

I agree with her and told her so.

The carols sounded merrier and brighter after the snowfall yesterday.