Why Christmas cards? by Candace Chaney

December 15, 2018  •  1 Comment

Why Christmas cards?  Why do we expend all the time and energy and expense to make such a feat happen?  Because as Roland Barthes has put it, "every photograph is a certificate of presence" and Presence is exactly what Christmas is about.  We send our well wishes and our photographs and it certifies a blessing of Presence between us.  We love you, we're with you, God is with you, our God-with-us Emmanuel has come and we know it even more in the being together.  Is it easy to get all the cards made and assembled and stamped and shipped and all of it?  Yes.  But it's so worth it.
 


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This is a request I have been presented over and over!! An enormous number of my clients imply me as 'The Baby Whisperer' and despite the way that I'd love to ensure that I have charm hands all I have really had is a huge amount of preparing with infants.
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