While we cannot erase bad memories, they can be exchanged and replaced by putting our hope in Christ and focusing on the true reason for the season. Stream songs including 'The Christmas Song', 'White Christmas' and more. Anyone who knows Christ as their Savior can experience the true joy of Christmas – the celebration of His birth! Listen to Christmas Memories by The Don Miller Music Experience on Apple Music. You will hear the amazing message how the little baby in a manger is truly the eternal God and Savior of the world.Ĭhrist came for people with scarred memories and hopeless futures. The hopeless cycle continues.įor those who want this year to be different, try stopping long enough to listen to the words of some of the old Christmas carols. But then the holidays come and go, and it seems all we do is pass out the same hand-me-down memories that we were saddled with. So, we plan carefully because we know those memories can last a long time, probably long after we are gone, and we want our children’s memories to be special and different. As the parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, and neighbors and friends, it is our chance to dole out the memories to those coming behind us and sitting on our shoulders. The years pass quickly and as our pile of discarded Christmas trees grows, we find we become the memory givers. Most of those memories, especially the ones from childhood, were not purchased by us, but they were passed on and now we are stuck with them. My parents moved my brother and me to Florida and, soon afterwards, they. That Christmas was the last one spent as a family. For others, it is a storehouse of treasures. My favorite Christmas memory is from when I turned 10-years-old. For some, the attic is more like a haunted house. The sad memories center around things like drunkenness, abuse, loneliness, arguments, and disappointment.Įvery year we sort through the attic of Christmas memories, which like good gifts, keep on giving. The precious memories contain thoughts like Grandmother, baking cookies, and fireplaces with stockings pinned to the mantles. Arriving in all shapes and sizes, some grab our attention and overshadow the thoughts of the season, while others are small and hidden away.Ĭhristmas memories which dominate the season tend to be either the warm and fuzzy type or the ones that are as dark as coal. Great christmas day TV is largely a myth.Memories of Christmases past are like presents under the tree. The highlight certainly was M&W - and until they left for ITV they always suceeded. For the oldies who had eaten and drunk to much it provided a good sleep aid - the kids had new stuff to play with. Then it was often tedious (and often overlong) films and 'christmas specials' of 'popular' gameshows or sitcoms which were filmed in October. After Brenda's tedious comments one channel would always have a circus. Brother-sister duo Richard and Karen Carpenter not only enjoyed an indelible string of hits that made them the most. TOTP at 14.00 (we have just finished dinner by then. Browse 6,246 christmas memories stock photos and images available, or search for christmas family or christmas lights to find more great stock photos and pictures. Probably just poor cartoons churchy stuff and somone visiting kids in hospital in the morning - but who cared.
You could guarantee an opera or ballet in the evening as well. They kept the big films for other times of year.īBC2 would probably have Play School c11.00 then bugger alluntil mid afternoon. The main evening film was often pretty lousy. I wonder what 5 programmes, past or present or invented ie Dr Who Christmas episode with Tom Baker, would make up your ideal Christmas Day schedule?:) As a child in the sixties, Christmas Day meant a "Big Film" as a cornerstone to both BBC and ITV schedules before video /DVD recordingįor me Morecambe and Wise was the Christmas must-see, everyone sat down to watch, then tea and sandwiches, where did we put all that food!