More Than a Day

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"Christmas is more than a day

at the end of the year,

More than a season

of joy and good cheer,

Christmas is really

God's pattern for living

To be followed all year

by unselfish giving ... "

A tinge of sadness as we wrap up the Christmas season, finish up the goodies, and box up the lights. There is a magic around this time of year that is sometimes hard to let go of. But in the bits of reluctance to let go of the magic, we stop - and are reminded that this is just the beginning, the start of a brand new year of love and of giving. 

"For if we lived Christmas,

each day, as we should,

And made it our aim

to always do good,

We'd find the lost key

to meaningful living

That comes not from getting

but from unselfish giving ...

For in the glad tidings

of the first Christmas night

God showed us the way

and the truth and the light!"

(Taken from 

"Let Us Live Christmas Every Day"

by Helen Steiner Rice)

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