Author	Thread: Christmas..merry or bah humbug
Admin	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 12 Dec, 2011 11:25 AM How do you deal with being single during the holidays? Post Reply
mcubed View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 12 Dec, 2011 03:22 PM No offence, but I' m sheer there is some taken... but if "Christmas" is a bout Y-shua being born and all of humanity is saved I don't get being sad. It is a holiday that is what it is why not make it is what it is??? Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 13 Dec, 2011 10:23 AM I don't mind it at all really because to me it's about celebrating with and appreciating the friends and family I do have. Somehow it makes me slow down and look at and be thankful for what I do have rather than wish I had more. Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 13 Dec, 2011 10:58 AM How do you deal with being single during the holidays? *** I dont "deal" with it..:rolleyes:...its a day of Celebration bout Christ Jesus whom came into the world to Save "Sinners"...thats the Focus & Reason for the Season...and everyday...:bouncy:...Amen! AMEN !!!...mcubed...xo Post Reply
bcpianogal View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 13 Dec, 2011 11:33 AM For the most part, I don't mind being single at Christmas any more than being single any other time of the year. Christmas is supposed to be a season to remember Jesus' birth, after all...not a season to lament the fact that I still haven't found that special guy. There are two events every year where I do feel lonely, though. One is at the Christmas banquet at my workplace. It is set up in such a way that if you don't have a spouse/family or at least a bf/gf, you are definitely the odd one out. It's not intentional, but that's the way it always is. The other event is one of the extended family gatherings that I have to go to every year. I'm the only adult without a spouse or bf/fiance, and more than once I've been relegated to the "kid's table" because of it. I didn't appreciate having to play the part of babysitter just because I was single. (I was about 25 the last time I allowed that to happen...the next time when there wasn't room around the "adult table", I took my plate and sat in the living room.) Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 14 Dec, 2011 06:31 AM I enjoy it. Like I do the rest of the year. Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 14 Dec, 2011 04:15 PM I am also single the remaining 364 days of the year! So to answer your question, I don't see singleness as a problem that I have to deal with. I see it as a season where I can focus on God, and spiritual formation. Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 14 Dec, 2011 04:50 PM Christ Jesus was born to Save "Sinners" is the Focus for the Season. Focus on others not on our self. Merry Christmas! :angel: Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 15 Dec, 2011 04:30 AM Christmas is not an issue, though I agree about isolating factor at the couples-world-mentality banquets. New Years is the tough one for me. Not the kiss... building Kingdom plans with a significant one who is just as invested as you, and with you, into the coming year. So when it comes... I will never be taken for granted! :yay: Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 20 Dec, 2011 10:17 PM It's a pity that Christmas has been robbed of its meaning and now turned into a mere jolly holiday of fun, Santa and gift. Christmas time is a period of reflecting God's love to humanity, preaching that love to people all around us (most especially people who don't have hope and people who don't have Christ). There is no correlation between this period of Christ's birth and being single. As a matter of fact, it like the Church has left the real meaning of the season to now celebrate what is out of it. The reason for the season is John 3:16. Being single or married is a stage that can only be attained because God has given us the privilege of being alive. Now, our state of singleness or being married is on a higher scale because we know of Christ and nobody can be identified with Christ except the Father called him. "For by grace we were saved through faith in Christ Jesus". Therefore, the live we now live is no longer ours but Christ. Shalom! Post Reply
View Profile History	Christmas..merry or bah humbug Posted : 15 Jan, 2012 08:00 AM First of all our Messiah was not born in December, just reference Jeremiah 10:3-5 Isaiah 40:19-20 Deuteronomy 7:25-26 . Post Reply