Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ~Norman Vincent PealeWhat is your favorite thing about this time of year? Is it the lights, the music, the family, the food, the sales and the shopping, the candlelight services, the cookies or the caroling? Other than the presents, what do you enjoy about Christmastime? Why do people brave the crowds and the lines and the weather or even stand in the freezing cold ringing a bell by a bucket? Why do they do it? Why do you?
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
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
