"Christmas is most truly Christmas
when we celebrate it by giving the light of love
to those who need it most."
- Ruth Carter Stapleton
Winston Churchill said, "Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."
However we live this day, may we take time to reflect on the gift of life and make room for peace and compassion to dwell and swell in our hearts.
I'd like to share a few Christmas quotes. I wish I could wrap each one and leave it in a special place for you to find in your home.
I'm hoping that one will especially stir your soul, and in some way, light a way of deeper loving for you now. Perhaps it's a way to see something more clearly. Perhaps a way to forgive. A way to heal. A way to follow your dream. Or a way to find your way to be the best you.
May the gifts of love and hope glow in your heart and grow in your life.
Always,
Charlene
“Christmas?
It is the tenderness of the past,
courage for the present,
and hope for the future."
- Agnes M. Pahro
"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern,
is very simple: loving others."
- Bob Hope
"... the message of Christmas:
We are never alone.
Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest,
the world seemingly most indifferent..."
- Taylor Caldwell
"Let us have music for Christmas…
Let each of us try, with a song in our hearts,
To bring peace to men on earth."
- Mildred L. Jarrell
“Remember this December,
that love weighs more than gold.”
- Josephine Daskam Bacon
Finally, one of my favorite quotes for every day of the year is this:
"Someday, after mastering the winds,
the waves, the tides and gravity,
we shall harness for God the energies of love,
and then, for a second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Can you imagine such love?
THE ELEVENTH GIFT IS LOVE.
It will grow each time you give it away.
- from The Twelve Gifts of Birth
