What do You Want for Christmas?
If there’s one question I hear over and over again this time of year it’s this: what do you want for Christmas? Amid the gift and the wrappings there is something about this time of year that gives us permission to dream, to be extravagant to hope for something more.
Christmas is a time for dreaming, for wondering, for optimism. I know that Christmas is not always perfect, but in this season it’s as if we’re allowed to wonder what it would be like if it was.
As I’ve thought about what I want, for Christmas and for the year ahead, I realized that it’s not something I think about as often as I should. It can be quite a challenge to put what I want into words. It takes courage to say it out loud. What if I admit that I want something and I don’t get it? What happens then? It is better to pretend I never wanted it in the first place?
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I came across a quote recently that has become my Christmas wish, for myself and for those I love. It speaks of the absolute necessity of hope. As I read it, I realize that this is what I want for Christmas. American novelist Barbarba Kingsolver writes:
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
I love the picture she has crated here. This is hope received. Hope is not something that happens to you, it comes from within you. Whatever your year looks like, whatever Christmas looks like for you this year, hope is a choice. You can have it.
It is my challenge to you, and to myself this Christmas. Do you know what you hope for? Are you living under it’s roof. As we step into Christmas, take time to truly receive, to wish, to dream and most of all, to hope.
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I want to spend time with the people I love, and give them gifts that will reinforce how much they mean to me, that will bring them joy when they use or consume them.
I want to find myself in the middle of organized chaos, in which nothing goes exactly as it’s supposed to, and be able to drift in and out of it, stirring gravy or chopping vegetables for half an hour and then flopping down to read a book.
I want to eat too much.
I want to shuffle my way through knee-deep snow to get anywhere, and I would like there to be at least one day or night when going out means dashing from the relative warmth of a vehicle, through twenty-below air, to the blast of heat from a shop. I want to skid from door to door in the slush as the snow falls, and see laden twigs on the trees, and pastel sunsets at 4:30.
I want to set up the white porcelain Christian nativity set on blue velvet, and the real Pagan tree next to it, laden with hidden ornaments.
I want us to shine, when nothing else does.
Hope is something we should not lose about. It is one of the most important virtues taught by God. And as we hope we are not losing God’s sight.
Hope is possibly the only thing we can wish for and do have! I think that our family would really hit the ceiling with happiness if my husband was to come home this Christmas! this has been the 7th one without him!
this christmas I want to love and to forgive my enemies.to be able to help my relatives
What I want for this Christmas ,its wary simple to come and live in Canada with my family legally and to have a normal life ,to run away from most isolated place in the world Kosovo .Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Thank you for this wonderful article. I hope i can find more hope in my heart, and live with my desires, not banishing them just because they might never become reality. God bless you, have a Merry Christmas!
This is in deed beautiful… a very different way of thinking.. to live in HOPE. coincidentally i was telling a friend yesterday that Hope is all we have…that is something we must not ever lose..This christmas has been the most trying one ever… But My hope is in Him alone…We know we are going to see a miracle. I can feel it coming. God bless you Claire… Have a Blessed Christmas
Hey dude, nice blog Happy Holidays!
to have all my children, relatives and friends serving God.To be an example of Christ’s love and bear fruit.To remain in good health
What a lovely thought – …to live right in HOPE, right under its roof — I really needed that kind of inspiration. Thank you