Comments on: Can’t We Have Christmas Now? http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/ Devotionals by Shirley Buxton Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:50:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Scotti http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3074 Scotti Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:39:39 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3074 Hi Shirley, Oh, how I long for the Christmas spirit! Can't we have it all year round? Here are some Christmas poems for you: http://scotti.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/immanuel/ http://scotti.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/babe-of-bethlehem/ Blessings, Scotti Hi Shirley,

Oh, how I long for the Christmas spirit! Can’t we have it all year round? Here are some Christmas poems for you:

http://scotti.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/immanuel/
http://scotti.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/babe-of-bethlehem/

Blessings,
Scotti

]]> By: Shirley http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3048 Shirley Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:53 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3048 Good morning, Helen. I consider fall a wonderful season also. Here in Lake Havasu, the temperatures have dropped, on my outside table I have a beautiful yellow Mum plant and a pepper plant--a pepper plant which used to be full and pretty, but which has been nibbled on by some brave animal and is scrawny now. There aren't many deciduous trees around, so I miss seeing the autumn display of falling scarlet and gold leaves. But there are a few brown ones here and there. Christmas and its spirit? You know how I feel about that. Glad we share that joy. Good morning, Helen.

I consider fall a wonderful season also. Here in Lake Havasu, the temperatures have dropped, on my outside table I have a beautiful yellow Mum plant and a pepper plant–a pepper plant which used to be full and pretty, but which has been nibbled on by some brave animal and is scrawny now. There aren’t many deciduous trees around, so I miss seeing the autumn display of falling scarlet and gold leaves. But there are a few brown ones here and there.

Christmas and its spirit? You know how I feel about that. Glad we share that joy.

]]> By: Welcome Fall, Season of Holidays « Windows Toward the World http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3047 Welcome Fall, Season of Holidays « Windows Toward the World Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:11:09 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3047 [...] posted in response to a blog entry by Shirley Buxton [...] [...] posted in response to a blog entry by Shirley Buxton [...]

]]> By: helenl http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3046 helenl Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:07:29 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3046 I'm sure I've said this before; I love fall. Fall is the season that culminates itself in Christmas. Fall begins as soon as the first whiff of coolness enters the air. Fall is the Holiday Season. Why deny it? But it's also new school clothes and shoes, pumpkins, dried corn and CANDY. Halloween is about fun: candy, costumes, caramel apples. Why ask questions the children never do? Then Thanksgiving. Sadly, this holiday gets lost in the Christmas rush and I think Halloween will be next. It shouldn't. Why does it have to be either/or? Shirley's idea of welcoming the Christmas Spirit now would eliminate that. Why be mad because WalMart is full of decorations in October? Why be mad at all? Madness is not of God and has nothing to do with the Christmas Spirit. Why not decorate (for Christmas) before Thanksgiving and give Thanksgiving it's rightful place in this season of holidays. The fall’s climax is Christmas. Not only is this a Christian holiday: the celebration of the coming to earth of the Son of God—sent to die so that reconciliation and salvation are possible—but it has also become a huge part of our cultural heritage. It is bad that non-Christians celebrate Christmas? Why? Didn’t God sent His Son to save both “Jew and Gentile”? Okay, so Christmas is the climax, and post Christmas the dénouement. The Christmas season is my favorite time of year, but what follows can be icy. So how do we stretch the Christmas Spirit beyond December 25? Well, New Year’s celebrations are a given. But what about Twelfth Night—Epiphany to Catholics and Protestants—which is also the Eastern Orthodox Christmas? Why not keep the decorations up until after that? So how is fall not the Holiday Season? How can Christmas come too early? Certainly not in spirit. Bah Humbug. [Posted also as an entry on my blog.] I’m sure I’ve said this before; I love fall. Fall is the season that culminates itself in Christmas. Fall begins as soon as the first whiff of coolness enters the air. Fall is the Holiday Season. Why deny it? But it’s also new school clothes and shoes, pumpkins, dried corn and CANDY.

Halloween is about fun: candy, costumes, caramel apples. Why ask questions the children never do? Then Thanksgiving. Sadly, this holiday gets lost in the Christmas rush and I think Halloween will be next. It shouldn’t. Why does it have to be either/or? Shirley’s idea of welcoming the Christmas Spirit now would eliminate that. Why be mad because WalMart is full of decorations in October?

Why be mad at all? Madness is not of God and has nothing to do with the Christmas Spirit. Why not decorate (for Christmas) before Thanksgiving and give Thanksgiving it’s rightful place in this season of holidays.

The fall’s climax is Christmas. Not only is this a Christian holiday: the celebration of the coming to earth of the Son of God—sent to die so that reconciliation and salvation are possible—but it has also become a huge part of our cultural heritage. It is bad that non-Christians celebrate Christmas? Why? Didn’t God sent His Son to save both “Jew and Gentile”? Okay, so Christmas is the climax, and post Christmas the dénouement.

The Christmas season is my favorite time of year, but what follows can be icy. So how do we stretch the Christmas Spirit beyond December 25? Well, New Year’s celebrations are a given. But what about Twelfth Night—Epiphany to Catholics and Protestants—which is also the Eastern Orthodox Christmas? Why not keep the decorations up until after that?

So how is fall not the Holiday Season? How can Christmas come too early? Certainly not in spirit. Bah Humbug.

[Posted also as an entry on my blog.]

]]> By: Shirley http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3045 Shirley Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:00:49 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3045 Hello, Leonard. Welcome to my blog. Hope you visit often, and certainly let us pray for the other. Hello, Leonard. Welcome to my blog. Hope you visit often, and certainly let us pray for the other.

]]> By: Leonard O http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3044 Leonard O Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:48:23 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3044 God Bless you Shirley, and thanks for dropping by to CollegeApologists.com May we share and acknowledge eachother in our prayers. God Bless you Shirley, and thanks for dropping by to CollegeApologists.com

May we share and acknowledge eachother in our prayers.

]]> By: Shirley http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3043 Shirley Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:11:40 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3043 Arm5. I'm with you. Christmas is absolutely my favorite time of the year. I love everything about it--even the hustle and bustle. Arm5. I’m with you. Christmas is absolutely my favorite time of the year. I love everything about it–even the hustle and bustle.

]]> By: arm5 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3041 arm5 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:14:02 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3041 I never have really cared for Halloween by far Christmas is my favorite time of the year besides in my opinion you some of the best candy at Christmas I never have really cared for Halloween by far Christmas is my favorite time of the year besides in my opinion you some of the best candy at Christmas

]]> By: Shirley http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3040 Shirley Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:39:52 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3040 How about the candy, Daniel? :) How about the candy, Daniel? :)

]]> By: Daniel http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3039 Daniel Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:37:59 +0000 http://shirleybuxton.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/cant-we-have-christmas-now/#comment-3039 Shirley I can honestly say that the only thing I like about halloween is that Christmas is right around the corner. Merry Christmas LOL. Daniel www.apostolicmessenger.wordpress.com Shirley I can honestly say that the only thing I like about halloween is that Christmas is right around the corner. Merry Christmas LOL.

Daniel http://www.apostolicmessenger.wordpress.com

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