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