Christmas Simplified, When Enough is Enough 

Merry Christmas to each of you! Thank you for a wonderful year here on RU-vid. You are my people! 🤍🤍🤍🌲

Bethlehem supper sounds like such a beautiful tradition.. Thank you, Sarah, for sharing your faith. I'm also a Christian, and Jesus is everything to me. Blessings in the New Year for you and your family.

I am also a Christian and a pastors wife. Thankyou for sharing the gospel so beautifully. God bless you and Merry Christmas to you and your family.

THANK YOU!!! I knew I loved you!!! We just recently got back to church after being out for many years. I’m so on fire again and thankful to be back in Christian fellowship again!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. Your Bethlehem Dinner Night is so beautiful and it brought tears to my eyes hearing you describe it. ❤ Merry Christmas sweet lady! 🎄🙏❤️

Absolutely lovely Sarah... speaking from your heart about our Lord was beautiful. I'm a Christian also, but the reminder of the real Reason for the season is greatly appreciated. God bless you & Merry Christmas!

Loved this! Thank you for sharing Jesus and your Bethlehem dinner with us. The real meaning of the season!

Your Bethlehem dinner tradition is absolutely beautiful. I feel sometimes like the older I get the more like a curmudgeon I’m becoming. The true meaning of Christmas is so lost to this world. Thank you for gently and beautifully talking about faith. God bless you and your family ❤

you had me in tears listening as you shared about our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. I so love hearing you and a few other of my fav RU-vidrs sharing their love of Jesus. Some people may never hear about or receive the good news of the Lord through family or friends, but you all that share on here just might be the one person that someone is hearing about the Lord and able to receive from. Love, love love your Bethlehem supper tradition with all the Mediterranean foods and the reading of the story. Have a wonderful, blessed Christmas and happy birthday to hubby. One of my best friend's husband's birthday is also the 22nd. So I try to get him a small something besides the Christmas gift for the both of them. Totally understand after all the preparation for Christmas and then Christmas itself, it would be a lot to add a birthday party a couple days before Christmas.

Your Bethlehem dinner tradition is such a beautiful way to celebrate Jesus in a more intimate way with your family. Thank you for sharing! Everyone gets so caught up in the crazy busy last minute preparations. It’s just so sweet and so special to set aside time for a dinner totally dedicated to the reason we celebrate Christmas as Christians. I truly love this idea and would love to start something similar of my own. May God continue to bless you and your family. Have a very blessed and joyous Christmas 🙏🏻🎄 🙏🏻

Beautiful time of sharing the reason for the season! Christ Jesus. Your joy and peace that radiates from you comes from deep within. God bless you Sarah

Thank you Sarah for sharing your faith in Jesus! I love that dinner you described as well. What a wonderful way to guide your children to Jesus as well! May God be with you and your family always!❤❤❤.

Sarah, thank you so much for your sharing the Gospel and and your beautiful way of encouraging others. God bless you this Christmas and into the new year. ❤

Sarah, you always seem to know what we all need. I'm so thankful for you for so many reasons! You put your whole heart into this channel and in everything you do. When I started watching you, I knew you were different than so many others. You're sharing so much more than decorating here. It is truly what you hold dearly! Thank you for all of the advice, and the Bethlehem meal tradition sounds so special. Thank you for sharing the gospel message. May our Lord and Savior bless you and may your Christmas be merry, dear friend.

What a beautiful family tradition. So lovely. I admire you.

God bless you, Sarah, for speaking your heart for Jesus. A lot of good tips for having more peace at Christmas time. Christmas blessings for you and yours.

❤ I absolutely love the idea of the Bethlehem dinner! Thank you for sharing. Thank you for the inspirations this year. May the Lord Jesus continue to bless and keep you, causing His face to shine upon you and giving you his abundant peace!

I have a whole different appreciation of you Sarah... At the 10 minute mark you really touched my heart! Thank You for this wonderful idea of stopping everything on the 23rd and celebrating the Reason for the season. Thank You for your honesty. I have tried to come up with a way to teach my Grandchildren and now GreAt Grandchildren about Jesus. I sO love this! God Bless You and Merry Christmas.......Continued Blessings!

What a beautiful video! How I love your tradition of the Bethlehem dinner! God’s Blessings on your week and the rest of this year! ♥️🙏🏼♥️

Sarah May our Lord bless you and your family for sharing about the reason we celebrate Christmas. Your a courageous woman after Gods own heart. Merry Christmas to those who follow Christ the Saviour of the world.

I love your Bethlehem dinner tradition! I’m going to tuck that away for next year, my kids will love it! Merry Christmas!

It's easy to get entangled in the pursuit of perfection, sometimes overlooking the beauty of simplicity. I truly appreciate you taking the time to express your thoughts

Merry Christmas! This was excellent. I love your Bethlehem idea. We do a tradition where we add straw to an antique crib throughout the season. Each straw piece is put there when one does an unknown good deed for another. At Christmas, we lay a baby Jesus in His manger. The point is to pull focus from ourselves to others, as Jesus did when He came to Earth. Merry Christmas!

I love your message! It's not about going to a church, its about accepting the Savior.

I love the idea and wonderful gesture of the Bethlehem dinner. It's very special.

Love love the Bethlehem meal...and especially explaining inviting celebrating Christ!! Thankyou

Beautiful. Have a great, blessed, joyful, peaceful, Merry Christmas!!!!❤

What a beautiful message. Great presentation of the gospel. Merry Christmas.

How beautifully moving is this discussion, Sarah. You are a treasure! Thanks galore for sharing this message. Merry Christmas!

Loved your Bethlehem dinner idea....and this whole video. 💙

Sarah, Thank you for sharing such a big part of yourself with us. You are a gift to us all. Have a wonderful, blessed Christmas with your family. My relationship with God is my strength!

Thanks so much for these beautiful ideas that remind us to focus on the reason for the season. ❤ Beautiful video.

Merry Christmas to you! Thank for sharing the Bethlehem dinner idea. I think we will try it! Very well said words of wisdom 👍🏼.

Very special to have you chat about your customs. Thank you for sharing your ideas and your heart. Merry Christmas! ~Helen Van Wagenen

Sarah, thank you for sharing your Christmas tradition of the Bethlehem dinner. It's so beautiful. It's wonderful that you share your love for Jesus and His great salvation for those who believe in His Sacrifice and Resurrection. John 3:16 is true. Thank you, sister for sharing your heart. Jesus loves us. Trust Him with your life. Blessings to you and your family. ⭐🙏✝

Sarah what a beautiful tradition to start for anyone at any age. I am also a Christian. May you and your family have a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I am constantly changing/simplifying the holiday season, yearly... Kids have all moved out, parents passed, we don't need gifts anymore.... or cards, gifts for everyone in our lives, stocking stuffers that end up in the Thrift Store Giveaway box! New traditions have sprung up...thoughtful, easier, more about time spent with loved ones/events...Way less baking, stress, events, commitments.... it is a decision...sometimes a hard one...but the reality is we have limited time, money, energy...and Christmas becomes more about stress, than Jesus' Birthday!

I really love the Bethlehem supper. It sounds very grounding, simple and peaceful. My children are older now but maybe it's something I can do with my grandchildren, regardless of the time of year. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽💕

I have always run around like a mad person trying to make Christmas so magical, traveling to make sure family can see us, etc. I just had a hysterectomy 3 weeks ago, and it has forced me to cut back on things and take it easy. Guess what? Christmas is still happening, even without the "magic," and my kids(all teens) have been so gracious and understanding. It puts things into perspective. Even without it all, Jesus still came to earth as a baby to give us the best gift of all.

How deeply special your Bethlehem supper must be. Thank you for sharing Jesus with us. He is the reason for the season. Blessings and love to you and your family. Thanks for all your beautiful videos. You are a gem.

Sarah, such a beautiful tradition! I have been a professional church musician most of my life and it has really been a balancing act, bringing Christmas to others and not missing Christmas with family. I pray that you and your family will have a joyful and peaceful Christmas with lots of time to soak in the blessed reason for the season. Merry Christmas, sweet sister!

I just love you my sister in Christ. You help me to be better in so many ways. Merry Christmas!❤

Thank you for sharing! You have touched my soul. I have been struggling this year with having our family Christmas at my home, I am so blessed to have 20 members coming for Christmas Eve, our blessing night. I have been so stressed about the fussy stuff aka decorating! Stressed about cleaning! Stressed about the gifting! Stressed about all the food, I love cooking for my family...however! enough is enough! YOU said ! I so over whelmed ..I am a widow, so I am alone doing a full dinner for 20 .. Also, may I add that I am 75 years into Christmas! Your vlog has touched me1

Sarah, bless you. Thank you for pointing our homes to beauty and peace and our hearts to the ONE who is that peace - Jesus. This is a beautiful and often difficult time of year, but stopping to look upon Him and listen to His voice is the true spirit of all that is Christmas. For God so so loved the world... He gave His one and only Son. Thank you and keep up the good work !!

Thank you for sharing such a sweet family tradition. Thank you for sharing your love for our Savior. Merry Christmas.

Always love your content and your calm demeanor. You are so gifted!

Thank you Sarah for sharing your beautiful tradition of a Bethlehem Dinner! As a Christian and a grandmother I feel it’s my responsibility to teach my grandchildren about Jesus. We do a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday to Jesus at our Christmas Eve Dinner! The children enjoy it. Have a blessed Christmas with your family, see you in the New Year.

Love your ideas. Last year I got rid of all the Christmas decor I no longer wanted. Put all the rest in see through bins. This year it’s just the two of us so no tree. Only lovely Putz houses on the mantle with faux snow plus a garland below. It gorgeous lit up at night with the fireplace lit.

Thank you, Sarah, for sharing from your heart. I loved all your comments, advice, and help for us to keep Christ in Christmas. Blessings to you an your family.

Such a beautiful story of the way you and your family share in the birth of our Savior. 🙏 Thank you

Thank you. Hearing about the Bethlehem dinner made me teary. I would love a tradition like that for myself.

This is such a powerful and helpful message! Thank you for sharing a practical way how you and your family honor Christ with your Bethlehem dinner.

I absolutely love the idea of the meal that your family shares in celebration of Jesus’s Jewish heritage that we are graciously adopted into through Him. How humbling and sweet to spend precious time together as a family worshiping and communing with the Lord. Thank you so much for sharing your faith with us! Jesus is the whole reason and the way! Merry Christmas and God Bless!

Merry Christmas. Thank you for sharing your Bethlehem traditions. I love those ideas. You inspire me to use what I have in decorating & I love it so much.

Beautifully done! Praising God for your boldness and sharing your faith. 🙌🙏🙌✝️

Merry Christmas, Sarah! Thank you for this wonderful channel and for sharing your love of Jesus as we celebrate Him this season. Much love ❤

My dear, this was so very deeply refreshing and blessing to me❤ Things I needed to hear. I wish I could give you a big hug! Have a wonderful CHRISTmas, dear sister

I needed to hear what you had to say! It is sooo overwhelming for women to get everything done without an extra 100 hours in the week or month! Thank you so much for the tips and your Bethlehem dinner sounds amazing and such an intimate way to focus on what we are celebrating! Have a wonderful holiday season and I look forward to your inspiration in the new year! ❤

I’m so proud of you for sharing your beliefs ! I believe as you do . Merry Christmas dear Sarah !

Thank you for your beautiful message of faith and traditions. The Bethlehem dinner sounds wonderful and so special. You truly are beautiful inside and out and very inspiring.

So true, Christmas should NEVER be stressful, that is as far from the meaning of it as you can get. To eliminate stress this is what I have done since I got married 30 years ago: Shop ALL year!! I have a gift budget that takes care of birthdays and Christmas so each month I keep watch for special things. Listen to family, they often say how much they would love this or that. Look for things they would never just buy themselves, especially when you are on vacation. People know that when I give them a gift I often have had it months because I was thinking of them, not buying just to buy...that takes away from the spirit of the gift if you feel you HAVE to buy. There will always be one or two people I still shop for late fall or getting stocking stuffers but generally I have all my Christmas gifts by October!!!! Then, there are the Christmas Rules we developed at the start of our marriage and stuck to them fiercely....Rule 1 - once kids are born we will never travel for Christmas, it is their time and will be in their home (yes, some grandparents were upset, sort of). Rule 2 - Only 1 toy may be given per child but you may give them all the clothes and books you want (cuts down clutter, develops a great library, rarely had to buy clothes, LOL!) Rule 3 - just as my Mom did, Christmas Eve we have a snack "party" dinner with veggie tray, cheese and crackers, and freezer to oven appetizers!! The kids loved this and usually ate better and healthier; calms their excitement too!! Rule 4 - church on Christmas Eve. As for decorating, it's a season, an Advent season, so break it down into 4ths. Week one - the outside and cards. Week two-the mantle, foyer, bathrooms, small touches. Week three-the tree and wrapping. Week four- baking and relaxing. Hope this helps someone. Give yourself grace and remember the meaning...Christ came in the simplest of ways, keep it simple and you will be amazed. Spend time before decorating to declutter and clean and you will find you need very little to be beautiful and special. Blessings!

Thank you so much for shining a light on the true meaning of Christmas. I love how you share your talents and your heart with us. Merry Christmas and may God bless you and your family.❤

Merry Christmas Sarah! May Jesus Bless you and your Beautiful Family and all who gather here!

Thank you for sharing your Bethlehem meal experience. I’ve been a Christian for a long time and never heard of it, I’ve heard how people do a Jewish Easter but not a Christmas meal. You are very brave, and well done for sharing about the true meaning of Christmas and encouraging us all God bless you and your family. I’ve watched your Utubes for some time. Thank you

Iam not of the christian faith, but your Bethlehem dinners sound so beautiful. Very thoughtful.

Thank you for boldly professing your love for our savior! ❤

Excellent. The reason for the season.

I cannot tell you how much your simple but profound way you shared the Christmas story was to me. You are such a light in this dark world. I'm so thankful for you and how much your channel means to me. I am going to share a Bethlehem meal with my granddaughters this Christmas. What a meaningful Christmas tradition to celebrate the most perfect gift. Thank you Sara😇 Janice Wilson

Bless You & Your Family and sharing & inviting Christ to others. What a Beautiful Tradition you have as a family. Thank You & Merry Christmas to you & yours Dear Sister in- Christ Sarah. Blessings🎶☝✝️👑🕊🙌🌲❄☃️

Merry Christmas to you and your family. Thank you for using your platform to share your faith. So many people that you inspire need to hear the love of our Savior . Have a very blessed Christmas.

Thank you for the refreshing explanation of your Christmas. The older I get I realise just how important it is to keep it simple, special but simple. Not all tinsel and hyper activity. Meaningful Christmas at the amazing story of Christs birth. How God didn't go to a wealthy family, an important city and with th so called important people. A simple stable, shepherds and that star. I have watched your program many times, and like you so much, but cannot embrace arrangements of things for the house. It is because at 77 I now know to be really simplistic and meaningful..Thank you beautiful lady for sharing your values..

Thank you for sharing vulnerably about your faith in the Lord and your family tradition for centering on the real meaning of Christmas. What a beautiful idea! When my you best kids were in high school their drama class put on a play with a similar Bethlehem dinner theme. It was always a really nice part of the season. I think the way you do it with just your family is very intimate and bonding and special. Thanks for the idea! Merry Christmas!

Thank you for sharing the joy of knowing Jesus. 💞 The dinner is a beautiful idea! You are a very wise woman with all those suggestions. It's the relationships with our family as we worship our Savior together that provide the beautiful memories for years to come and gives us a depth of appreciation for Christmas. Merry Christmas to you and your family.🎄🙏

A very beautiful way to celebrate with the meal and music and prayer

Yay dear sister in Christ. Thank you for being so vulnerable and real about your faith in Jesus. Have a truly joyful Christmas, from Sydney.

What a beautiful video Sarah! The Bethlehem dinner sounds like such a spiritual concept. I may have to try doing this as a "lunch" on one of the days I watch my 4 year old grandson. I tried to share Jesus with him as much as possible. Thank you for sharing what being a Christian means to you and your family at this time of year. Merry Christmas!

Thank you for sharing your faith. So many on RU-vid don’t share their faith and you did it well. I love your channel and appreciate your soft demeanor. Merry Christmas!

Sarah, thank you for this lovely message around protecting our holiday from chaos, honoring traditions, and making beautiful new traditions - the Bethlehem Dinner! Your video has been a genuine Christmas gift to me. May yours be full of countless blessings already on their way. ❤

I truly loved your last portion of the video. Thank you so much for sharing your faith. I am also a Christian, and celebrating Jesus and all He has done for us, is everything to me!

Thank you, Sarah for your inspiration as a fellow wife, mama, homemaker, and RU-vidr. I appreciate you! I love your Bethlehem dinner tradition…so wonderful…thank you for sharing it with us. 💛 Merry Christmas! May God bless you and keep you in the new year.

Thank you for sharing your family's tradition of a Bethlehem Supper...what a wonderful tradition!!! Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Beautiful nativity display! ❤

The most beautiful video u have ever done Sarah… Merry Christmas… Happy Birthday Jesus!🎄❤️

Thanks for the guidance and the love! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!! ❤️🎄

Thankyou Sarah for such a beautiful and inspiring talk to end the season. Your Bethlehem dinner is a beautiful way to celebrate the birth of Christ. When my children were young, I would make a birthday cake and we would sing Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus and the boys so enjoyed that tradition. Merry Christmas to you and your family and a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Thankyou for this video. Bethlehem supper sounds wonderful. I love how intentional you are about focusing on Christ in Christmas. Thankyou also for beautifully sharing the gospel and encouraging people to get into a local church. God bless you and Merry Christmas!

Loved hearing about your Bethlehem dinner. Bless you for sharing such a beautiful message about our Saviour Jesus!! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, may you be richly blessed in 2024. 🥰🙏🎄💕

Thank you so much for the words about our Savior at Christmas. The real reason. Your words were soft and encouraging. This is the first year I will be without out daughter and family.. It is so hard. My granddaughters are 15 and 17. We have a new reason to pray in our church this holy season. Our pastor was killed last Friday on a motor bike. Our church is so sad. But we are pulling together. Lots of hugs! It will take awhile to pull it together. It just shows you. Tell your loved ones and friends you love them. You do not know when things change. I have enjoyed you this year, have a Blessed Christmas and rest. Your friend Joyce

I am totally resonate with you as being christen. Jesus,is the reason for the season. Love the Bethlehem dinner. Such an awesome video Sarah. Our real God is a loving God.

Love this video! Than you Sarah for sharing your beautiful traditions. I am so glad I found your channel. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

This was lovely! Thank you for sharing. 🤍 I recently read about Sally Clarkson’s Shepherds’ Dinner, also, and I’m loving the idea of creating a quiet moment as a family to tune our hearts to the deeper reason we celebrate. I enjoyed hearing about your family’s lovely tradition.

You show what a true child of God really is. Thank you for sharing your faith with us and all your wonderful talent. Merry Christmas to you and yours my Dear! 🎄

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts on when enough is enough. I think sometimes we just get caught up in perfectionism that we lose sight of the beauty, simplicity and peace that this time of year can bring. You sharing your family's tradition was such an inspiration to me to try something new this year. Our blended family needs a new tradition! thank you for also reminding us that the real reason for the season is JESUS!! I'm wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!

Thank you for sharing your heart for God and your tradition to honor Him and bring peace to your family. I love finding sisters in Christ here on RU-vid. What a unique family bond we have though we won't probably meet until heaven.

This has been my favorite! Merry Christmas 🎄

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thank you for such a wonderful series of content.

What a beautiful testimony of your faith, Sarah. Thank you for the reminder of what is really important to us as Christians. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Merry Christmas! Thanks for the fasteners tips!🙏✌️❤️

Thank you for sharing your deep faith in our Lord. It’s so refreshing and truly what is needed for everyone. Christmas blessings to you and your family. ❤️🙏🎄

I could not love this video more. Merry Christmas!