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Remembering Christmas in Your Heart
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Ways to Keep Christmas in Your Heart All Year Long
- Share your Christmas experience
- Tell one person about your Christmas joy:
- Nothing elaborate, just a simple sharing of the specialness and meaning of this season for you
- Do something special for someone on the 25th of each month
- Send a card, take them to lunch, give a secret pal remembrance
- Nothing of any real monetary value
- Remember the secret is the giving of yourself
- Set aside time each week to listen to God
- Spend just 10 minutes each week reading Scripture and consider how the passage applies to your life.
- Make a hallelujah "Faith Promise."
- Instead of a New Year Resolution list, ask God to guide you and your goals for the year.
- Pray, "Lord, with your help, this year I will _______________"
- Share a non-perishable food item each week with community food banks.
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Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is the classic story of
redemption, transformation, hope, life and new opportunity. It is the
story of a second chance. To this end, Scrooge becomes the archetype of
Christmas. He is the reason for Christmas even as he is the result of the
birth of Christmas in the human heart. If we will be honest with
ourselves, his story is our story with all of its potential, lost chances,
self-awareness and new opportunity.
Dickens challenges each of us by ending his story with the
description of a new Scrooge: "And it was always said of him that he knew how to
keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge." May that
be truly said of us, and all of us!
He challenges us to keep the
spirit of Christmas in our heart each day of the year. Our production of
Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" is a direct result of our endeavor to keep
Christmas in our heart. To further assist this endeavor, the membership of
First Christian Church has developed a special program structure to help live
the spirit of Christmas each day. Please be sure to get a full listing of the Christmas
passages for
the year.
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Each year, the Christmas Carol production pictures are posted on a local website. You can check out those pictures here.
http://www.rememberindiana.com/fcc/photos.htm
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