18. How to Create a Meaningful Christmas This Year Made for Hope: Conversations for Christian Women

Are you looking for ways to create smaller, more memorable holiday traditions this year? Today, I have ten ways for you to create a meaningful Christmas in the midst of a different kind of holiday season.

This is the year to discover new traditions or revitalize old ones. Instead of seeing what you can’t do, we can see the birth of Christ in a new way and make special memories with our families.

These 10 ideas are meant to help you think about the why behind your own traditions and give you a new focus on hope this year.

Here are 10 ideas to help you create a memorable Christmas including:


How we can pivot our traditions or make new ones
Managing expectations when things don’t go as expected
How to keep your sense of humor over the holidays
How to reframe the season
Keeping your focus on Jesus and my favorite Advent resources.

Episode links

What is the Jesse tree?

https://sararward.com/new-ideas-meaningful-holiday-traditions/

Unwrapping the Greatest Gift by Ann Voskamp

https://www.amazon.com/Unwrapping-Greatest-Gift-Celebration-Christmas/dp/1414397542/

Family Advent Guide: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f5a18da36c9eadb831c1b50

The book I’m reading for Advent: Remarkable Advent by Shauna Letellier

https://www.amazon.com/Remarkable-Advent-Extraordinary-through-Ordinary/dp/1734137401/

Episode Link

https://sararward.com/made-for-hope-podcast-episode-18/


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