Christmas is Not a Day for Restraint

Christmas is Coming! ” Celebrate, Celebrate… Dance to the Music!

Dear Reader:

Do you sometimes get a little nervous around ” Southern Living” homes -the ones that are so perfectly decorated at Christmas that they look and feel more like a museum than a home? Quiet, sedate Christmas carols play softly in the background and you start checking the time on your mobile phone-hoping to get through with the tour before you accidentally break something?

Think about it… on the first Christmas Day didn’t the heavenly angels sing … loudly…in wonderment and joy? This is the day the Creator of all the cosmos entered history and changed it forever! As Quinn Caldwell comments… ” This calls for tinsel, construction paper tree chains, gobs of glue and tons of glitter, blinking stars and colored lights with water bubbling in them.

Christmas is not a day for restraint. Caldwell reminds us ” When God decided to decorate for Christmas, God hung an enormous star in the heavens, not a string of demure white lights. No doubt the neighbors were appalled, but it sure did draw a crowd.”

So until tomorrow… Celebrate the God Who didn’t hold back anything! Be unrestrained! Put on some music ( preferably loudly) and decorate for a party while praising God’s name!

Today is my favorite day. Winnie the Pooh

Fun pictures of children, grandchildren, pets, sports, vacations… family memory Christmas ” Tree”

Do make Christmas merry and bright for those you know and more importantly those you don’t!

About Becky Dingle

I was born a Tarheel but ended up a Sandlapper. My grandparents were cotton farmers in Laurens, South Carolina and it was in my grandmother’s house that my love of storytelling began beside an old Franklin stove. When I graduated from Laurens High School, I attended Erskine College (Due West of what?) and would later get my Masters Degree in Education/Social Studies from Charleston Southern. I am presently an adjunct professor/clinical supervisor at CSU and have also taught at the College of Charleston. For 28 years I taught Social Studies through storytelling. My philosophy matched Rudyard Kipling’s quote: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Today I still spread this message through workshops and presentations throughout the state. The secret of success in teaching social studies is always in the story. I want to keep learning and being surprised by life…it is the greatest teacher. Like Kermit said, “When you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe you rot.”

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