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Religious Christmas wishes for your friend: 10 to choose from
A religious Christmas message for your friend 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.
Christmas cards are written in bulk and everybody knows it, which means the reader can tell within one line whether they have received a message or a distribution.
Friendship is the only close relationship with no formal obligation behind it. Nobody has to keep showing up, which means every year it continues is a choice that was actively made.
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 friend
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Praying that this Christmas reminds you how deeply you are loved, by Him and by those who know you. Merry Christmas.
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Thankful today that the Christ child came for people like us, and thankful that you are in my life. Merry Christmas.
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May the peace of this season settle on your home and stay long after the decorations come down.
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I have prayed for you more often this year than you know. Wishing you a blessed Christmas.
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Wishing you the joy of the angels' news, which was good then and is still good. Merry Christmas, my friend.
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May the Lord who came as a child meet you in whatever this year has asked of you. Blessed Christmas.
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God has been faithful to you in a year that tested you. I hope this Christmas lets you rest in that.
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Grateful for you this season, and for the kind of friendship that is also a kind of prayer.
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Praying that hope, which is what Christmas is really about, finds you this week. Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas. May His light be easy to see in the dark parts of the year.
What actually works in a Christmas message to your friend
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.
A card that could have been sent in any of the last five years announces itself immediately. One reference to the actual year fixes it.
Naming the choice is what separates a friendship message from a pleasantry.
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 friend
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 friend
The point at which you stopped being acquaintances 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 friend will recognize it immediately, which is the entire point.
- The point at which you stopped being acquaintances
- A period when they were reliable and it cost them something
- A joke that has survived far past its expiry date
- Something they are good at that they undersell
- A habit of theirs you have picked up
- The thing you always do together, however small
- A time they told you something you did not want to hear
- How they have changed since you met, and how they have not
What goes wrong when people write to friends
Describing fun instead of loyalty
"We always have a laugh" is true of many people. What distinguishes this friendship is usually something more specific and less flattering to say out loud.
Making it entirely nostalgic
A message made only of old material implies the friendship's best part is behind it. Include something from this year.
Undercutting every sincere line
Friend messages often deflect with a joke immediately after anything true. Let one sincere sentence stand without rescue.
Common questions
- What is the best christmas message for your friend?
- Pick one real detail - the point at which you stopped being acquaintances - and build two or three sentences around it. Friendship is the only close relationship with no formal obligation behind it, which is why a message that could only have been written to your friend outperforms a longer, more polished one that could go to anyone.
- What should you not write to your friend?
- Avoid describing fun instead of loyalty. "We always have a laugh" is true of many people. What distinguishes this friendship is usually something more specific and less flattering to say out loud.
- 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 a period when they were reliable and it cost them something. 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 friend
Specific intercession reads as love. General blessing reads as form.
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For a friend you only properly contact once a year, this card is the entire relationship that year.
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When a Christmas message is not quite enough for your friend
Specific intercession reads as love. General blessing reads as form.