Saturday, October 21, 2006

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

Friday, October 20, 2006

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"

Thursday, October 19, 2006

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)

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

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)

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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

Monday, October 16, 2006

Christmas Fever !

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
 
W. T. Ellis