Christmas Lights

[Living4Him03]

So who all is ready to look at Christmas lights this year? I know it's only October, but I can't wait until after Thanksgiving (in the US) when people start putting lights on their houses and in their yards. I really want to go this year and I think I will. It's been something I've loved since I was a little girl.

anyone else share in the joy of looking at lights?

 

[Tink]

YES YES YES. I love looking at Christmas lights!

In Christ,
Tink

 

[BeautyForAshes]

Me too. Every year, a local park will decorate in Christimas lights and offer hayrides through the park. Its so much fun!

But I guess I'm biased to this time of year since my birthday is Dec. 25th

 

[gizmo03]

I am very excited to get the lights and other decorations out and put up! If it was my decision they would of been put up a week ago, but I hold off cause I know people go crazy when they see stuff like that up too early. Seems like Thanksgiving Day is going to take forever to get here!

 

[LionOfJudah]

why take them down, enjoy them all year long, then when it comes time again for Christmas you are ready with out all the work and you can help a neighbor

 

[wildthing]

why take them down, enjoy them all year long, then when it comes time again for Christmas you are ready with out all the work and you can help a neighbor

too funny!! my neighborhood has a contest to see who can have the biggest electric bill during Christmas. Since I am alone this year I don't know what I am going to do about the lights.

 

[kelco]

too funny!! my neighborhood has a contest to see who can have the biggest electric bill during Christmas. Since I am alone this year I don't know what I am going to do about the lights.

Put em up and plug em in.

 

[wildthing]

Put em up and plug em in.

Yeah Yeah I got those crazy light that get tangled up. and are a pain to hang. Will need to see what mood I'll be in.

 

[Grunt]

It's fun to ride around and look at em. One of our traditions is to come home through downtown on Christmas eve on the way back from my grandmothers to see the lights.

There was one guy near here who owned a farm and used to do a whole little valley full of lights. Like a 100 ft tall Christmas tree made of lights, decorated barns and everything else, with a little path so you could drive through it. He stopped doing it a couple of years ago though

 

[kelco]

Yeah Yeah I got those crazy light that get tangled up. and are a pain to hang. Will need to see what mood I'll be in.

I usually end up looking like this when I get done.

Seriously though I love to drive around and look at them, especially if it's snowing.

 

[2Timothy2]

Oh no, are we really talking about this already????

OK, I like them too, just not so early.

 

[Raanan]

So who all is ready to look at Christmas lights this year? I know it's only October, but I can't wait until after Thanksgiving (in the US) when people start putting lights on their houses and in their yards. I really want to go this year and I think I will. It's been something I've loved since I was a little girl.

anyone else share in the joy of looking at lights?

My campus just turned on the lights on the upper dorms last night. You'ld like it. They're hanging lights gong down about 3 floors off a 8 story building.

 

[kelco]

Oh no, are we really talking about this already????

OK, I like them too, just not so early.

Yeah only 81 shopping days until Christmas! I think the week after Thanksgiving is soon enough.

 

[wildthing]

I usually end up looking like this when I get done.

Seriously though I love to drive around and look at them, especially if it's snowing.

Nothing is better then to break out the cross country skis and see them. I just wish a group would go out and sing Christmas carols too.

A true story when I worked retail sales one year a little boy and his mother came up to me and said Mister I see you have movies and books about holidays. whose brithday is it? I answered him in this way "You know people today don't want to know about the real reason about Christmas, They are stuck on trying to find the best price for things and how much stuff you can get. But you and I know the truth that God gave us the best gift. His son who died for our sins." His mother gave me a strange look and wished me a Merry Christmas. I wonder to this day what they talked about in that car after paying me for the items they bought.

 

[kelco]

Nothing is better then to break out cross country ski and see them. I just wish group would go out a sing Christmas carols too.

A true story when I worked retail sales one year a little boy and his mother came up to me and said Mister I see you have movies and books about holidays. whose brithday is it? I answered him in this way "You know people today don't want to know about the real reason about Christmas, They stuck on trying to find the best price for things and how much stuff you can get. But you and I know the truth that God gave us the best gift. His son who died for our sins." His mother gave me a strange look and wished me a Merry Christmas. I wonder to this day what they talked about in that car after paying me for the items they bought.

They talked, and you planted the seed. People often times pick up on the Message more than they let on.

 

[wildthing]

It was the best day I every had at that place.

 

[wildthing]

Does anyone eles have a good Christmas Story????

 

[kelco]

When I was little I can remember my grandfather telling me that O Holy Night was His favorite Christmas carol. I had just started piano and I asked my teacher if she could teach it to me. This was in July and by Christmas I could play it. I never let him hear when I practiced it. That Christmas morning I told him I had a gift for him but I could'nt wrap it and I played it for him. That was the first and only time I ever saw him cry. I know that I will carry that in my heart forever. I learned that year that Christmas was more than rushing around the mall and agonizining over that perfect present, it was all about God's love for us and our love for each other.

 

[wildthing]

This is a good story. Thanks for sharing it. A gift from the heart is the best.