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Holiday
Decorating Tips: Christmas
Candles
by: Jeanette Joy
Fisher
How to Light Up Your
Home for Joy
Do you love the winter holiday
season or does this time of year cause
you stress? One way to lower your holiday
stress, using fewer decorations,
decreases your "just have to much to do"
list.
However, you still want to display
Christmas candles because these decorations
bring smiles to you and your loved ones. As
days grow shorter and cooler and the suns sets
earlier, people naturally crave the warmth and
comfort of light, especially natural sources
such as a bonfire or the flame of a Christmas
candle.
Christmas Candle
Tips
Luminaries
Save your energy and your money.
You don\'t need to line your entire
sidewalk with luminaries. Get a similar
effect with four large candles in clear
glass containers near your front door.
These glowing candles will welcome your
guests without all the work of gathering
bags, buying votive candles that just
burn up fast, and shoveling all that
sand.
Window
Candles
Many cultural holiday traditions
include placing a lighted candle in front
windows to be seen from the outside.
Pamper yourself. Place a candle in any
dark window at night. Rather than peering
into a dark void, you\'ll focus on the
cheerful flame and feel comforted and
uplifted.
Gift
Yourself
Create a nightly quiet ritual
for yourself in a quiet place away from
distractions and the hustle of the
holidays. Place candles around your
bathtub and unwind, or by your favorite
reading chair and instead of reading sit
in the quiet and reflect upon the
brightness of a single candlelight.
Listen to quiet music or simply enjoy the
peace and stillness. Ponder the joys in
your life and express gratitude. This
quiet time may be your most treasured
gift to yourself.
Candlelight
Carol-Sing
Recycle last year\'s greeting
cards by cutting each into a disk or
rounding the edges, punch a hole in the
center, and slide a taper candle half-way
through the hole. Gather your friends and
family around the piano or hearth and
sing familiar Christmas carols as each
person holds their own candlelight. Pause
to reflect upon the fact that each
individual brings their own special light
to the world and recognize the common
spiritual light in each of us.
Candle
Night-Night
When it's time to settle the
children down to bed on Christmas Eve,
calm them with a soothing candlelight
ritual. My daughter’s children walk to
bed, each carefully carrying a lighted
candle through a dark hallway, singing
"Silent Night."
Happy Holidays!
© Jeanette Fisher
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