What Christmas really means to me
Hello Everyone,
on this beautiful Christmas Eve day!
I'm aware that, depending on the latitude of your existence and traditions of your family, we may generally start Christmas on a different day or celebrate it in even more variant way, but I couldn't help but leave a line here.
In the middle of singing carols out of tune, I would love to send you best wishes for this unique season and share personal reflections what special I really see in it. Enjoy and don't forget to grab a cookie while reading (on my behalf!)
Firstly, I want to shortly remind myself and you, if you forgot, why every single year Christmas period is something we should especially focus on.
Yes, it's just amazing even before same celebration, to prepare all the decorations, bake gingerbread, sing Mariah Carey & Wham! yet in November (anyone in October?), wear festal: socks, jumpers, panties, what you wish about.
It's even better to finally spend more time with family, watch Christmas movie together, obviously eat like crazy - but still it's all about your fam & home.
Though, what I find in Christmas enormously powerful and unchanged is the real birth which happens to a human at the end of the year. Christians I know directly link it to the "birth of Jesus love within us" and kind of purification.
Call it as you want, there is indeed a catharsis happening in your heart and mind, and that lasts for me also after Christmas - for these several days until New Year turns up.
I've always had days off school in this gap and it probably led me to reflection that this the perfect opportunity to sit peacefully, far away from any kind of work, and let yourself analyse the whole of the year which comes to its finishing post.
To stop at this very moment.
Stop makes sense after all, huh?
This contemplation allows me to see and feel that I really kept the year in my hands, that I didn't let time and rush control my awareness of the world.
I sum up my achievements and it gives me power for the goals I want to fulfill in the year ahead.
I analyse deeply my relationships to see with which people I may have become closer or with whom it's no worth developing contact any further.
(The last is the most bitter, but very important. After all, you want to be surrounded by people who love you as much as you love them.)
These moments of silence, staring at the candles, non-hurrying balances out the person I've become the particular year. In this way, I'm going into upcoming 1st January with my own, natural power.
I don't have to ask for motivation, I literally build it and simply get happy at the end.
There is nothing more motivating that all the good things you did, courage you showed and barriers
you broke.
To the point, My Dear Readers.
Maybe this blog is a fresher in the Internet land, but I'm so glad you welcomed it so warmly. I hope you'll stay in here also for 2018 and longer and so far I thank you so much for every single visit. I feel this positivity flowing out from the other side of the screen.
I wish you a lot of health, joy, peace and inspiring Christmas Stops only.
May this time become a true chance for discovering yourselves anew and finding more goodness and beauty before another chapter begins.
If you have got any kind of Christmas reflection you would like to share, please do below this post. I will be absolutely thrilled!
on this beautiful Christmas Eve day!
I'm aware that, depending on the latitude of your existence and traditions of your family, we may generally start Christmas on a different day or celebrate it in even more variant way, but I couldn't help but leave a line here.
In the middle of singing carols out of tune, I would love to send you best wishes for this unique season and share personal reflections what special I really see in it. Enjoy and don't forget to grab a cookie while reading (on my behalf!)
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| classic Christmas table |
Firstly, I want to shortly remind myself and you, if you forgot, why every single year Christmas period is something we should especially focus on.
Yes, it's just amazing even before same celebration, to prepare all the decorations, bake gingerbread, sing Mariah Carey & Wham! yet in November (anyone in October?), wear festal: socks, jumpers, panties, what you wish about.
It's even better to finally spend more time with family, watch Christmas movie together, obviously eat like crazy - but still it's all about your fam & home.
Though, what I find in Christmas enormously powerful and unchanged is the real birth which happens to a human at the end of the year. Christians I know directly link it to the "birth of Jesus love within us" and kind of purification.
Call it as you want, there is indeed a catharsis happening in your heart and mind, and that lasts for me also after Christmas - for these several days until New Year turns up.
I've always had days off school in this gap and it probably led me to reflection that this the perfect opportunity to sit peacefully, far away from any kind of work, and let yourself analyse the whole of the year which comes to its finishing post.
To stop at this very moment.
Stop makes sense after all, huh?
This contemplation allows me to see and feel that I really kept the year in my hands, that I didn't let time and rush control my awareness of the world.
I sum up my achievements and it gives me power for the goals I want to fulfill in the year ahead.
I analyse deeply my relationships to see with which people I may have become closer or with whom it's no worth developing contact any further.
(The last is the most bitter, but very important. After all, you want to be surrounded by people who love you as much as you love them.)
These moments of silence, staring at the candles, non-hurrying balances out the person I've become the particular year. In this way, I'm going into upcoming 1st January with my own, natural power.
I don't have to ask for motivation, I literally build it and simply get happy at the end.
There is nothing more motivating that all the good things you did, courage you showed and barriers
you broke.
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| in the middle of festive somewhere |
To the point, My Dear Readers.
Maybe this blog is a fresher in the Internet land, but I'm so glad you welcomed it so warmly. I hope you'll stay in here also for 2018 and longer and so far I thank you so much for every single visit. I feel this positivity flowing out from the other side of the screen.
I wish you a lot of health, joy, peace and inspiring Christmas Stops only.
May this time become a true chance for discovering yourselves anew and finding more goodness and beauty before another chapter begins.
If you have got any kind of Christmas reflection you would like to share, please do below this post. I will be absolutely thrilled!
With love, Julia xxx
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