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    25 Days, 26 Ways to Make This Your Best Christmas Ever
    25 Days, 26 Ways to Make This Your Best Christmas Ever
    25 Days, 26 Ways to Make This Your Best Christmas Ever
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    25 Days, 26 Ways to Make This Your Best Christmas Ever

    Written by Ace Collins

    Narrated by Fred Stella

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    Christmas should be the most anticipated day of the year. But many people dread the shopping, financial strain, and extra activities they have to sandwich between the layers of their already too-busy lives.Bestselling author Ace Collins is the perfect guide to help them navigate the stress of the holidays. As he shares twenty-six easy ways to revamp Christmas expectations, readers will relax, refuel, and readjust their attitude toward the season. Each upbeat chapter contains easy to apply ideas for taking a fresh look at a holiday tradition or task and making it positive and meaningful. Through a blend of historical stories, scriptural truths, and contemporary anecdotes, Collins creates a recipe for holiday happiness. He adeptly shows how to keep the joy of the season from derailing and helps readers rediscover Christmas as it was meant to be—holy, peaceful, and purposeful.A glorious Christmas is attainable with Collins’ timely wisdom and advice. Partly devotional, partly practical, and always thoughtful, Collins’ book will help readers make this their best Christmas ever!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateSep 1, 2009
    ISBN9780310773597
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    Ace Collins

    Ace Collins is the writer of more than sixty books, including several bestsellers: Stories behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, Stories behind the Great Traditions of Christmas, The Cathedrals, and Lassie: A Dog’s Life. Based in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, He continues to publish several new titles each year, including a series of novels, the first of which is Farraday Road. Ace has appeared on scores of television shows, including CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and Entertainment Tonight.

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      This book is meant to help reduce the stress that Christmas can bring, but really, it’s good advice for any time stress threatens to overpower you. For example, it can help you feel better when you are dealing with being isolated at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though intended for reading a chapter a day in Advent, it’s too good to just not continue on once you’ve started. I liked several aspects of the book, but the one I liked best was the author’s many references to Christmas carols and songs. He emphasizes the importance of the lyrics, the history of the songs, and how even current secular songs had, at one time, religious connotations. He gives examples of things you can do to connect to others, to alleviate feelings of loneliness, to make and preserve familial ties, to come to appreciate things that you formerly disliked, and more. This is a book that each time you read it, and you will want to read it again and again, you will come away feeling a bit better and ready to face new challenges.