Christmas

By jtolman • December 11th, 2009

“This is a compilation of many years of doing the “12 Days” for neighbors & friends. Often, I would go to The Dollar Store, buy things, and then come home and make up the verses to go with what I bought. Merry Christmas to everyone and Enjoy!! Cindee Silly 12 Days Ideas 1. cartridge in [...]

I ran across a talk given by Ardeth G. Kapp and thought it was appropriate for this time of year.  We can take the entire holiday season to ponder this not-terribly-new idea, then decide what the new year will bring.  It takes six weeks to form a habit, right? First, she explains how the pioneers [...]

It may be a little early to think about Christmas, but… No one has as many grandchildren as Mormons.  Grandchildren are precious and wonderful, but can be expensive when it comes to the holidays.  When it comes to Christmas, we want to smother the little darlings with expensive love. Here are a few ideas you [...]

It’s never too early to think of Christmas.  Am I the only one who thinks that way?  Granted, I am not one of those who has the shopping all done and wrapped before Thanksgiving.  I’m usually still scrambling around at the last minute still looking for that “perfect gift”, which is hopefully on sale. This [...]

Here’s another piece of gold I pulled out of the Woman’s Exponent.  I love finding these gems.  The language is just a little more formal, but the subject still rings true.  In our day and age, we have to dig deep to find the true meaning of Christmas and what we are really celebrating.  And [...]

I was lucky to sit in at a luncheon where Elder Bednar spoke the other day.  He instructed us to pull out some paper and a pen, and with our notes teach our families about the true meaning of Christmas. He first pointed out a regular Christmas TREE.  When you gaze upon your Christmas tree, [...]

Christmas is a time of joy and happiness.  Yet sometimes realities of our situation press upon us and we find little joy or happiness. Times have gotten real hard real fast for a lot of people this Christmas.  But for many, every day of the year can be hard, so when Christmas rolls around, there’s [...]

To review, the letter X is actually the Greek letter Chi. Xmas has been used for hundreds of years in religious writing, where the X represents a Greek chi, the first letter of Χριστος, “Christ.” So Xmas was a code phrase for Christ or Christmas.  Symbolically let’s look at another thing. Chi is the first [...]

Aunt Em was the beloved Emmeline B. Wells.  She was the common sense voice of the Woman’s Exponent for many years.  The following article was written by her, for the newspaper, and put in the Dec  15, 1875 edition.  Let this serve as our own little reminder of Christmases past from our one and only [...]

It takes an effort to keep Christ in Christmas.  So many things come to dilute, replace, and expunge Jesus Christ from our Christmas holiday.  Have you been watching as each year we are requested to be more and more politically correct, open, and accepting, to other holidays being celebrated at this time of year, and [...]