FOR THE PERSON WHO HAS EVERYTHING

Some gifts you can give this Christmas are beyond monetary value:

Mend a quarrel, dismiss suspicion, tell someone, “I love you.”

Give something away—anonymously.

Forgive someone who has treated you wrong.

Turn away wrath with a soft answer.

Visit someone in a nursing home.

Apologize if you were wrong.

Be especially kind to someone with whom you work.

Give as God gave to you in Christ, without obligation, or announcement or reservation.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

THE QUIET HOUR

Amid the Christmas rush and noise

Of Christmas trees and childrens toys

Of gift and bow and mistletoe

And presents laid out in a row

We need to take a quiet hour

To contemplate all Heaven’s power

Which sent to earth our Heavenly King

When angels in the realm did sing

And in a quiet manger lay

A baby boy upon the hay

There, in that silent place, we find

The focus of all space and time.