Merry X'mas

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
~ Agnes M. Pharo


The merry family gatherings-- The old, the very young; The strangely lovely way they Harmonize in carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time, Traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, The sameness of them all.
~ Helen Lowrie Marshall


The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.
~ D. James Kennedy ("Following the Star" in Christmas Stories for the Heart)


The only blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
~ Helen Keller

Christmas - Just 3 Days To Go....

Christmas is not in stories, but in the hearts of people.~ Unknown



The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids.
~ Unknown



It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.~ Charles Dickens



"One of the nice things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present."
~ Author Unknown



Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
~ W. C. Fields

Christmas - Just 4 Days To Go....

There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!"
~ Unknown


Christmas will always be in the hearts of God's children everywhere as they extend a helping hand to a friend in need ... as they go about reflecting God's goodness in the little quiet and unheralded expressions of a loving heart ... as they share the light of the world with those who live in darkness.
~ Jane Hillsmen ("Christmas")


The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another.
~ Unknown


The only blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
~ Helen Keller

Lovely Christmas Poem - 5 Days To Go....

Merry Christmas, Darling - Carpenters

Greeting cards have all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you

Merry Christmas darling
We're apart that's true
But I can dream and in my dreams
I'm Christmas-ing with you

Holidays are joyful
There's always something new
But every day's a holiday
When I'm near to you
The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it every day
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say

That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I've just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you .....

Christmas - 6 Days To Go....

"Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed,

That it might live forevermore To fill our every need,

That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through,

The miracle of Christmas time That brings God close to you."
~  Garnett Ann Schultz

 

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

~  Unknown

 

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

~  Garrison Keillor

 

A Christmas Blessing
During this Christmas season,
    May you be blessed
With the spirit of the season,
    which is peace,
The gladness of the season,
    which is hope,
And the heart of the season,
    which is love

Christmas - 7 Days To Go....

Christmas is the time for looking ahead courageously through the gates

of the swiftly approaching new year ... of resolving that

the coming months will reflect a kinder, more forgiving and

less heedless person than mirrored in the past.

~  Ellen V. Morgan ("Christmas is the Time")

 

 

Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer,

but always it will be a day of remembrance--

a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
~  Augusta E. Rundel

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

~  Charles Schulz

Christmas - 8 Days To Go....

Good news from heaven the angels bring,Glad tidings to the earth they sing;
To us this day a child is given,To crown us with the joy of heaven.
~ Martin Luther


Christmas, 'my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's 'Christmas.
~ Dale Evans Rogers


As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
~ Donald E. Westlake

Christmas - 10 Days To Go....

Love came down at Christmas;
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and angels gave the sign.

~  Christina Rossetti

 

 

Mankind is a great, an immense family...

This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

~  Pope John XXIII

 

 

May joy be yours today,
And radiantly abide
Within your heart until
Another Christmastide.

~  Gail Brook Burket

 ("May Joy Be Yours Today")

Christmas - 11 Days To Go ....

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

~  William Saroyan

 

 

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

~  Washington Irving

 

 

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

~  Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas - 12 days to go....

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving


Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.
~ Oren Arnold


The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.
~ Louisa May Alcott

Christmas - 13 days to go...

"Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man."

~  Unknown

 

 

"It came without ribbons, It came without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can't be bought from a store... Maybe Christmas means a little bit more."
~  Dr.Seuss

 

 

Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon,; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a beauty Lovelier than the world can show: For Christmas bringeth Jesus, Brought for us so low.
~  Christina Rosetti

Christmas - 14 days to go

Two things upon this changing earth can neither change nor end; the splendor of Christ's humble birth, the love of friend for friend.

~  Unknown

 

 

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

~  Lenore Hershey

 

 

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

~  Kin Hubbard

Christmas - 15 days to go....

Christmas is the one time of year when you can count on smiling faces and bright lights and awesome gifts and giant twinkling trees and family reunions and childish games and believing in that old man that you know doesn't exist. Christmas is the time when dreams come true.

~ Unknown

 

"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."       

~  Kin Hubbard

 

A Christmas Blessing
During this Christmas season,
    May you be blessed
With the spirit of the season,
    which is peace,
The gladness of the season,
    which is hope,
And the heart of the season,
    which is love.

Christmas - 16 days to go....

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

~  Charles Schulz

 

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

~  William Parks (Missions)

 

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

~  William Saroyan

 

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

~  Mary Ellen Chase (New York Times)

Christmas - 17 days to go....

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
~  Leigh Hunt

 

 

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...Filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

~  Bess Streeter Aldrich

 

 

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
~  Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas - 18 days to go....

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the  year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish.  Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.

~  Francis C. Farley

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

~  Richard Lamm

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

~  Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.

~  Unknown

Christmas - 19 days to go...

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

~  Washington Irving

 

 

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

~  Oren Arnold

 

 

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

~  Louisa May Alcott

Countdown - 20 more days to go....

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

~  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

("Christmas Fancies" Poems of Power)

 

 

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
~  Marjorie Holmes

 

 

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.
~   Unknown

Christmas - Just 22 day to go....

Let us keep Christmas beautiful
Without a thought of greed,
That it might live forevermore
To fill our every need,

That it shall not be just a day,
But last a lifetime through,
The miracle of Christmastime
That brings God close to you.

~  Garnett Ann Schultz

 

 

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

~  George Matthew Adams (The Christmas Heart)

 

 

Love came down at Christmas;
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and angels gave the sign.

~  Christina Rossetti

CountDown Begins - 23 Days To Go for Xmas....

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
~  Henry Vaughan

 

"Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience."
~  Handel H. Brown

 

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. 

~  John Andrew Holmes

 

Christmas - 24 days to go.....

"The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son."
~  Robert Flatt

 

 

For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.
~  Phoebe Cary

 

 

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight."
~   Unknown

Keep Christmas in Heart, All Year Long !

"It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, 'God Bless Us, Every One'!"
~  Charles Dickens

 

 

"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
~  Charles Dickens

 

 

"I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year."
~  Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Lovely Christmas Quotes !

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith;
the warmth of Christmas, which is love;
the radiance of Christmas, which is purity;
the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice;
the belief in Christmas, which is truth;
the all of Christmas, which is Christ.
~   Wilda English

 

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.
~   Van Dyke

 

Let's approach Christmas with an expectant hush,
 rather than a last-minute rush.

~  Unknown

Christmas - It opens the shut hearts !

I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
~  Charles Dickens

 

 

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
~  O. Henry

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~  Roy L. Smith

Glorious Face of Beauty - Jesus !

I've seen the face of Jesus...
It was a wondrous sight!
Oh, glorious face of beauty,
oh gentle touch of care;
If here it is so blessed, 
what will it be up there?

~  W. Spencer Walton

Feel Christmas in Heart !

He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.
~   Sunshine Magazine

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~  Washington Irving

 

 

Christmas, weddings, funerals, graduations, retirements, and births are like speed bumps in life; we slow down, look around, think about our lives, and then once over the bump, we speed up to our usual pace.

~ Allen Lagarbo

Christmas - Time to Rejoice

Christmas is the one time of year when you can count on smiling faces and bright lights and awesome gifts and giant twinkling trees and family reunions and childish games and believing in that old man that you know doesn't exist. Christmas is the time when dreams come true.
~  Unknown

 

 

Christmas comes everyday because to be alive is the greatest gift ever!!!!
~   Unknown

 

 

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, children singing Christian rhyme, logs on the fire and gifts on the tree, time to rejoice in the good that we see.
~  Cliff

Lovely Christmas Quotes !

"The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son."
~   Robert Flatt

 

And the Baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday.
~  Thomas Haynes Bayly

 

 

As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy months will you have.
~  Old Saying

Christmas Is For All !

The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
~  Alfred, Lord Tennyson "In Memoriam"

 

 

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."
~  Marjorie Holmes

 

 

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? "
~   G.K. Chesterton

Christmas Season - A Different World !

Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

~  George F. McDougall

 

 

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

~  Hamilton Wright Mabie

 

 

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

~  Phillips Brooks

Christmas - A Glow of Happiness !

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
~   Pope John XXIII

 

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things-not the great occasions-give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~  Bob Hope

 

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
~  Alexander Smith

Christmas - This Time Of Year !

This time of year means being kind,
to everyone we meet,
To share a smile with strangers,
we may pass along the street.

 

~  Betty Black ("This Time of Year")

 

 

This is Christmas : not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.

 

~  Frank McKibben

Open Your Heart For Christmas !

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

 

~   George Mathhew Adams

Christmas - A Finest Finish of the Year !

At Christmas….
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...

~ Edgar Guest

Lovely Christmas Quotes !

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
~ Unknown

 

 

What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.
~ Unknown

 

 

If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
~ Unknown

Christmas : Bonding All Together

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

 

~  Charles Dickens

Christmas - Loved By All !

At Christmas I no more desire a rose,

Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;

But like of each thing that in season grows.

~ William Shakespeare

 

 

Christmas is more than a day at the end of the year,
More than a day of joy and good cheer...
Christmas is really God's pattern for living,
To be followed each day by unselfish giving...
Then Peace on Earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.

 

~  Unknown

Lovely Christmas !

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.

 

 

~  Christina Rossetti

Christmas Time !!!

I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And mild and sweet the words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

 

I thought how as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had roll'd along th' unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

 

And in despair I bow'd my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."

 

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men."

 

'Til ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,
Of peace on earth, good will to men!

 

 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Christmas Quote

"At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices."

-- Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)

Xmas Quote

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.

-- Leigh Hunt

Christmas Time Friendship...!!!

Friendship is a precious gift to give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

-- Unknown

Christmas - A Necessity !

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

 

 

~  Katharine Whitehorn

Everything is Young at Christmas !

The earth has grown old with its burden of care
But at Christmas it always is young,
The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair
And its soul full of music breaks the air,
When the song of angels is sung.

 

 

~ Phillips Brooks

Christmas Opens Shut-up Hearts !

 "But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."

 

~  Charles Dickens

Christmas - Day Of Rememberance

Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

 

~ Augusta E. Rundel

Let Christmas Not Be A Thing !

Let Christmas not become a thing
Merely of merchant's trafficking,
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamour, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze,
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer's martyrdom.

 

~Madeline Morse

Christmas - A Time To Gift !

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!

 

~  Carolyn Wells

Feel The Spirit of Christmas !

Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display–so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree not the firelight's glow. It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again.

 

- Unknown

Let Every Day Be Christmas !

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.

 

~Norman W. Brooks,

"Let Every Day Be Christmas"

Christmas Time - Fun Time !

The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling,

remind me that most people are that way all year round--

kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy.

But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

 

~ Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)

Christmas Eve - Everlasting ...!!!

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

 

~ Bess Streeter Aldrich (Song of Years)

Christmas - A Family Gathering !

The merry family gatherings--
The old, the very young;
The strangely lovely way they
Harmonize in carols sung.

For Christmas is tradition time--
Traditions that recall
The precious memories down the years,
The sameness of them all.

 

~ Helen Lowrie Marshall

Christmas Fever !

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."

 

~ W. T. Ellis

Christmas of Children !

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.  In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. 

 

 

~ Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Gather Things for Christmas !

Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
Gather them now and lay them away
When Christmas comes.

Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
And life is short from beginning to end;
Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
When Christmas comes.

 

 

~ William Lytle ("When Christmas Comes")

Glow of Christmas Season !

And so, this Christmas season
may our hearts with gladness glow,
As we read the blessed story
That took place so long ago.

 

~  Alpha L. Buntain ("The First Christmas")

Think Christmas In All Things !

"So remember while December Brings the only Christmas day, In the year let there be Christmas In the things you do and say."

~ Anonymous

Christmas - A Glorious Dream

"Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man."

~  Wilfred A. Peterson (The Art of Living)

Spirit of Christmas !

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. 

 

~ Loring A. Schuler

Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

~ Dale Evans

 

Christmas - Good for All !

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.

 

 

~Norman W. Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas"

Christmas - A Magical Season !

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

~ Bill McKibben Author, Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

~ Hamilton Wright Mabi

Christmas - A Time to Enjoy !

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas.  Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. 

 

~ W.J. Ronald Tucker

Christmas bring us close !!

From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.

~  Emily Matthews

Christmas is Sharing !!!

Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy ... near and far. Christmas is sharing.

 

 

~ Patricia Clafford

Enjoy Christmas All the Time !

Heap on the wood!

the wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

 

~ Sir Walter Scott

Christmas - Shining Forever !

Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

~  Grace Noll Crowell

Christmas - A Great Festival !

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.

 

~Eva Logue

Christmas - Feel in Heart !

It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.

 

~ Richard Roberts (Contemporary Christ)

When Christmas Comes.....

Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
Gather them now and lay them away
When Christmas comes.
Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
And life is short from beginning to end;
Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
When Christmas comes.

 

 

~ William Lytle ("When Christmas Comes")

Christmas - Bridge of Time Flow

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

 

 

~  Gladys Tabor (Still Cove Journal)

Spirit of Christmas !

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.

 

 

~ Isabel Currier