When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly flickering candles on each windowsill. To the simple beauty of the historic church...

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in life and take things for granted.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew.That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

Christmas is a state of mind.

Goodwill to all.’ I know it’s techinically ‘goodwill to all men,’ but in my mind, I drop the ‘men’ because that feels segregationist/elitist/sexist/generally bad ist. Goodwill shouldn’t be just for men. It should also apply...

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he’d look in on the Sailor’s Grave, his...

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart.

At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.

Guthrie turned to see who his attacker was. And smiled when he caught her eye.He had the most devilishly wolfish look about him — a mixture of impending payback with a snowball and something a...

I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. ‘These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it’s Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get...

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of...

Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?!...

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show...

The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin “Tubby” Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his...

Honor your joy today, whilst it replenishes and strengthens you – in the company of your Soul.

Let the essence of Christmas blossom within – as the countdown to Christmas begins.

The herald of Christmas is the Christmas

And in despair I bowed my head;”There is no peace on earth,” I said;”For hate is strong,And mocks the songOf peace on earth, good-will to men!”Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:”God is not...

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma’am. I’m not worth more than fifteen.

With more time spent in their mother’s presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie’s own...

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.

We didn’t see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasn’t a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon – though I couldn’t tell you what about. And...

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by the dim rays of a horn lantern, some eight or ten...

Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God’s presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn’t understand everything that was happening,...

It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

At Willard Bay they have Christmas lights throughout the park and people circle through. More visitors means more money. We need destination visitors, we probably aren’t going to get much more out of the locals,...

One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at...

So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God...

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c’est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.

Advent creates people, new people.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.

Through joy, the Soul confirms your ability to remain victorious – even in the midst of defeat.

Let the life of one so dear be celebrated and embraced – with each passing day.

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it’s tough to accomplish anything else.

There was virtually no control at the border. They would go back for birthdays, for Christmas, for holidays, because they could always come back across the border easily.

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!To fold a world in the embrace of God!

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

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Christmas Eve, I give him packages which I open for him, since the bows and paper represent more labor than he could manage: music videos by the Nashville singers he thinks particularly sexy, fleece-lined slippers...

Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.

My team picked up one point out of 12 over Christmas and were a bit low on confidence – maybe but we deserved it.