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Religious Christmas wishes for your family: 10 to choose from
A religious Christmas message for your family works best when the blessing is specific to them rather than a general benediction. Name what you are actually praying for in their life. Below are 10 written to be used as they are or adapted.
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A religious message works when the blessing is specific to this person rather than a general benediction that could be read over anyone.
A card to a whole household is read aloud, propped on a mantelpiece and seen by people it was not written for, which changes what belongs in it.
A message to a whole family has to work for several people at once, which is why most of them end up saying nothing in particular.
Christmas messages are written in bulk, and everybody knows it. The reader can tell within one line whether they are receiving a message or a distribution.
10 Christmas messages for your family
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Praying that Christ is at the center of your home this Christmas, and in every room of it.
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May your family gather in gratitude for the gift that began in a stable. Blessed Christmas to all of you.
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Thankful for each of you, and for the faith that holds this family together. Merry Christmas.
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Wishing your household peace, health and a full measure of His goodness this Christmas.
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May the star that led the wise men lead every one of you home safely this season.
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God has carried your family through this year. May Christmas be a time to say so out loud.
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Blessing your table, your children and the quiet hours of this holy season.
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We are praying for every one of you this Christmas, by name. Merry Christmas to your whole family.
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May the joy of Bethlehem fill your home and spill over into the new year.
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Peace on earth begins at the dinner table. Praying yours is full of it this Christmas.
What actually works in a Christmas message to your family
Scripture and blessing language can do the work of feeling without doing the work of attention. Name what you are actually praying for in their life.
Listing every name and saying nothing is the standard failure. One observation about what this family is like as a unit does more.
One observation about the household beats a list of names.
Reference the year that has actually happened. A Christmas card that could have been sent in any of the last five years announces itself immediately.
Timing and etiquette for a Christmas message to your family
If someone has lost a person this year, their first Christmas without them is the thing to acknowledge.
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Details only you would know about your family
The thing this family does that no other family does is usually the fastest way in. Swap one general phrase in any message above for one of these and the borrowed line becomes yours - your family will recognize it immediately, which is the entire point.
- The thing this family does that no other family does
- How they handle a crisis as a unit
- What their house is like when everyone is in it
- A tradition they have kept going
- Something they have got through together
- How they treat visitors
- The noise level, the food, the specific texture of the household
- What the family has been like this particular year
What goes wrong when people write to families
Listing everyone by name and saying nothing
A roll call is not a message. One observation about the whole is better than five empty clauses.
Ignoring what kind of year it has been
Families notice when a message pretends a hard year did not happen.
Pure formality
"Wishing you all the best" is a greeting, not a message.
Common questions
- What is the best christmas message for your family?
- Pick one real detail - the thing this family does that no other family does - and build two or three sentences around it. A message to a whole family has to work for several people at once, which is why most of them end up saying nothing in particular, which is why a message that could only have been written to your family outperforms a longer, more polished one that could go to anyone.
- What should you not write to your family?
- Avoid listing everyone by name and saying nothing. A roll call is not a message. One observation about the whole is better than five empty clauses.
- How long should a christmas message be?
- Two to four sentences, with at least one referring to something that actually happened this year. Seasonal wishes can close it, not carry it.
- How do you make a christmas message sound personal rather than copied?
- Change one detail to something only you would know. Take any message here and replace its general noun with how they handle a crisis as a unit. That single substitution is what separates a message that sounds borrowed from one that sounds like you wrote it.
When a Christmas message is not quite enough for your family
Specific intercession reads as love. General blessing reads as form.
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If they have had a hard year, writing around it is more conspicuous than acknowledging it.
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When a Christmas message is not quite enough for your family
Specific intercession reads as love. General blessing reads as form.