Let Your Hearts Be Light

'Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal!'


 I couldn't help it, I needed to write something about Christmas. For me this time of year evokes wonderful memories of my childhood, with my siblings watching Home Alone, followed by attempts to create burglar traps of our own (just in case Harry and Marv broke out of jail and decided to fly across from America to England to ruin our Christmas).  
 The most difficult thing about writing a blog for Christmas is that it's all been said before. Of course it is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus and how that precious day continues to affect people's lives today. It's a time for families and friends to get together and celebrate the year gone by. It's a time for over eating, over spending, and general overindulging.
 I love Christmas and every year as it approaches my excitement grows when I hear the beautiful words of my favourite Christmas carol, 'Have yourselves a merry little Christmas.'

'Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on
Our troubles will be out of sight'

Hope And Gratitude 

 There are two words we need to remember in this season-hope and gratitude. However your year has played out, I really hope that you can join with me in celebrating the good days along with the bad.  Celebrate that any pain you are going through will soon be out of sight. Whatever your belief is about Christmas, I beg you not to let this season pass without stopping and making a list of everything spectacular in your life.

 With hope in your heart, celebrate that 2014 is a new year with new surprises and twists and turns that you have no idea about yet. What blessings await you? What breakthroughs are you going to have?  A new year is certainly a great chance for a new start, what can you apply yourself to next year to make 2014 the best year yet?

 So put on your paper hats, groan at those pathetic yet wonderful Christmas cracker jokes, listen to Michael Bublé's Christmas album, act surprised when opening the present you asked someone to buy for you, and snigger and smirk at that part in Christmas carol 'Silent night' where we sing, 'round young virgin mother and child'.

Merry Christmas Folks And A Happy New Year! 

Love from the Notts