How Do You Find Christmas? - original written & performed by Linda Jean (all rights reserved)

This is for everyone who is missing a loved one at Christmas.....i wrote this Christmas of 2019, three months after losing my dad....my hero.

How Do You Find Christmas?
By Linda Jean
Time has a funny way of hanging for a while,
Nothing changes very much when you are still a child.
And everything stays just the same with every passing year,
And Christmas time is such a joy when family are near.

So how do you find Christmas in your heart,
When you've lost the ones that meant the most
And taught you from the start,
The meaning of love, of tradition and of home?
Yes, how do you find Christmas on your own?

Mum would bake us Christmas treats
And Dad would hang the lights,
Both were done with so much love so it all would be just right.
And we'd decorate the living room so festively at night,
Singing all our favorite Christmas songs with joy and great delight!
And on Christmas day we'd open gifts around the Christmas tree,
My mom, my dad and brother, the family dog and me.
And as the years had passed us by, and after we had grown,
For these precious times at Christmas we'd always make it home.

So how do you find Christmas in your heart,
When you've lost the ones that meant the most
And taught you from the start,
The meaning of love, of tradition and of home?
Yes, how do you find Christmas on your own?

There comes a time in all our lives when everything must change,
Those times of love and laughter can now cause so much pain.
But the blessings of those times we've had
And the loved ones who are gone,
Will always be a part of us and at Christmas they'll live on.

So that is how you find Christmas in your heart,
When you've lost the ones that meant the most
And taught you from the start,
The meaning of love, of tradition and of home?
They will always be a part of us
And at Christmas they'll live on.

Yes, that is how you find Christmas in your heart,
When you've lost the ones that meant the most
And taught you from the start,
The meaning of love, of tradition and of home?
They are in our hearts at Christmas
And each day all year long.

They are in our hearts at Christmas,
And through us ....they'll live on.

At Christmas......