Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a...

You have only to stay over Christmas with a family who seriously try to ‘keep’ it (in its third, or commercial, aspect) in order to see that the thing is a nightmare. Long before December...

Odotan aina joulua5 päivää puhelin ja verhot kiinnikynttilän valossa paikat siistejänukun silloin ja nukun tällöinriisipuuroa ja kinkun siivuja20 elokuvaa pyjamassaikkunasta hohkaa naapurin valoletkusekin melkein naurattaamuutama paketti ja kännykkä toivotuksia tulvillaansuklaarasiassa nyt toinenkin käsisekin haluaa geishaanappaan...

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

It’s been my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they’re going. For them it’s the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop...

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you …

Christmas ribbons decked every crystal ball knocker on every sparkling door as far as the eye could see. Through the snowy streets of the Veiled Village, Echoes and Sounds rushed to and fro, their shimmering...

Soulfully encouraged on Christmas day, to journey freely – toward your chosen goals.

As we fulfill our life’s journey & path – let us remain trusting of the inner guidance of our Soul.

Just when the air turns frosty and the days shrink into darkness, the Christmas season arrives in America. It begins at Thanksgiving–with families, feasts and football. Then during the next six weeks we shop and...

She blinked once, then twice, and yet again, sure what she viewed was just another part of this fantasy world that she had stepped into when her feet touched the green grass of Ireland.

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...

It’s been a good Christmas.

But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of...

Let’s not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We’ll have a tiny bit of it, I said.

I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, ‘Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance...

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

Things are much better. The biggest thing I can tell you is at the concert they had just before Christmas, the kids seemed to be enjoying what they were doing. They were laughing and having...

Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.

Bevve un sorso di caffè e si sporse in avanti per ravvivare il fuoco, poi prese un libro dal tavolino e cercò di concentrarsi nella lettura.Tentativo patetico e inutile.Pensò allora a come sarebbe stato condividere...

Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, “More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going to need me.

We must look to Mary’s example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement …

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a a note on it saying, toys not included.

This may be the last round of refinancing, and it could actually save the Christmas season.

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day

Life is unfolding by each step you take – but, it is fulfilled by every choice you make.

What is important is what can be explored throughout Christmas, in the company of your Soul.

This core concept is so fundamental to her life that she even had a custom grand piano made where the keys aren’t black and white—they’re green and red. As a side note, do you think...

The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed before Christmas that they...

Actually Grandad Christmas is a pagan holiday and Jesus probably hates you for celebrating it.

God is love. He who loves knows God.

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

One year, President Nazarbayev was at the Christmas party, and in his toast, he talked about Nazarbayev as a forward-looking leader, as someone who’s going to bring democracy to Kazakhstan. And there were tears in...

What do you think of Christmas?””I like it,” she said. “I think we should have it every year.

We spent Christmas together but a lot of time was spent on the court for an intense preparation for 2006.

For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others… well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at...

Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write “X-Mas” instead of “Christmas”; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas. Speak Christmas. Reflect Christmas. Listen and feel ChristmasChrist doesn’t care how you write...

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter – eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low – pressure time – that’s one of the things I love about it),…

Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a...

Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and scientists study and philosophers philosophise and preachers preach and labourers sweat. But in that...

Back around Christmas time, I really thought this team was jelling into a nice team. Just the way they started to play as a five – they really started to get the concepts we were...

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...

There’s something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment.

Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently...

My uncle Ernie didn’t believe in God.At least that’s what he said. But he alwaysWent to church on Christmas. Which I thoughtSeriously compromised his atheism.

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning – not home but the place through which...

In the midst of embracing life secrets, you will remain purposely guided – throughout your life.