The Huron Expositor, 1970-12-17, Page 14YON, tPOSiTOR, SEAFORTH, ONT., D. /C. 17, 1979
From My Window
- By Shirley J. Keller —
A NEW METHOD
It is getting uncomfortably close to
Christmas, isn't it? Don't get me wrong.
I love Christmas. It is a wonderful
time of year. But quite frankly, it gets
a little expensive and more than that,
it becomes a real headache when one
doesn't know what to buy for this one
or that one.
This year though, I said to hang with
the expense. This year I'm going to
give the illusion of wealth when it comes
.to my children and my husband . .
so I devised a plan that is entirely new
to our household.
I posted a chart. It was just a
simple ruled chart with the names of my
husband and family at the top of individual
columns. Each column contained several
spaces for entries by each member of
the family . . . and I requested that each
person write down those things he or she
would like to have for Christmas.
The cost, I told them did not matter.
Just enter your wants on the 'list and
wait for Christmas to roll round with
the results.
Now you may think that certainly
isn't a very clever idea . . . but that's
because you aren't clued in to the rest
of the story just yet.
In the very centre of the list I placed•
my name . . . and of course, the spaces
to write down those things which I would
like to receive for Christmas. Nowhere's
where the strategy comes in.
on my list, I wrote things like hand
lotion and tea towels and gloves and
writing paper etc. etc. Nothing I wrote
down would cost over $2.
My family would waltz up to the
list to write down their fondest dreams
and note what mother had boldly written
in the centre column. I would watch from
my vantage point at the kitchen sink as
they read my list . . . then seemed to
reconsider their own.
"Is that all you want for Christmas?"
my daughter asked.
"Yes dear," I told her.
"It is all I really need," I Insisted.
"After all, we have a lovely home and
plenty to eat and to wear. What more
could anyone ask for?"
"But if daddy only buys you a bottle
of hand lotion," she sputtered, _"he's
not going to spend much more money on
us kids."
"Don't be silly," I scolded. "I said
you could write down just anything at all
on that list and I'm not changing my
mind now. Just because I'm satisfied
with a little less is no real reason why
you should not want more."
My daughter looked at me a long
time, then she went to the list. I didn't
even bother to watch as she made her
entries. I didn't have to. I knew she
would not fail me - and 'she didn't. On
the list she wrote things like skate war-
mers and skate guards and hairbands and
mittens, etc.
I think it is called psychology.
But there's more.
When I come to buy my Christmas
gifts for the family, I may not stick to
the list for a mother always knows what
it is her child will cherish most.
There may be enough money in the
budget to indulge each child (and hubby)
in one or two special gifts. It will
give me greater pleasure than
ever before to really surprise them with
items they were not expecting . . . and
I'll just bet you that they will be thoroughly
delighted and about 100 per cent more
satisfied this Christmas than they have....
been for a few years .now.
There's only one thing I haven't figured
out yet. How am I going to get my family
to ignore what I've written on the list so
that I can have what I really want most
of all - their love, the trust and their
respect.
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As a new Christmas season
comes 'round again, it is in-
teresting to look back on the
very tradition of the holiday
itself.
No other observance is so
rich with myth, legend, fact
and fancy culled from the
world over,
In the earliest days of
Christianity, Christmas was
not a festival at all. And, be-
fore the fifth century there
was no established opinion as
to when Christmas was ob-
served on the calendar. Dates
in months as various as Jan-
uary, March, April and May
—as well as in December were
discussed as the day of Na-
tivity in the earliest days of
Christianity.
In the first two centuries
after Christ's birth, it was re-
corded by early historians
that 1-lis birth occurred on
Wednesday, December 25th,
a lso. on Friday, December 25th
and also attributed to various
other days in the week.
In the Calendar of Philo-
calus (354 A.D.) it is stated
that in "Year I after Christ
the Lord, Jesus Christ was
born on December 25th, a
Friday, and 15th day of the
new moon"—though in fact—
December 1, A.D. I, was a
Sunday.
Early chronologists have
variously associated the birth
of Christ with symbolism at-
tendant to the many anniver-
saries devoted to the creation
of the sun.
Certain Latins as early as
the year 345, transferred the
birthday from January 6th to
December 25th, which was
then a Mithraic feast or birth..
day of the unconquered sun
of Philocalus.
The Syrians and Armeni-
ans of that period clung to
the January 6th observance
and accused the Romans of
sun-worship and idolatry.
In the late third and early
fourth centuries, the feast of
December 25th was observed
in the West from Thrace to
Cadiz, while in the East—in
the Byzantium empire, the
January 6th date was cele-
brated.
in the Christian church the
festival of the Nativity of Je-
sus Christ is so closely asso-
ciated with the Epiphany (the
commemoration of the Bap-
tism) that • no history of
Christmas is complete unless
both are looked at together.
Epiphany has been cele-
brated in the Teutonic west
as the Festival of the Magi
. . . it has been called the
Feast of the "Declaration," of
the "Manifestation," of the
"Apparition," or simply,
Twelfth Night.
Until the fourth century,
the Christians observed only
Epiphany and Easter with
'festivals and religious rites,
and the physical birth of
Christ was not widely recog-
nized.
In fourth century Spain
and Armenia, the month prior
to Epiphany was a time of
fasting and repentance.
Synonymous with t he
Epiphany observance is the
blessing of the springs and
rivers from which the water
is stored for baptisms and lus-
trations.
Long before the birth of
Christianity, December 25th
was celebrated by the -Anglos
with all-night festivities and
vigils as the start of the new
year. It was called "modra-
necht" ot.:nother's night."
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