This Christmas, mend a quarrel.... Seek out a forgotten friend.... Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.... Write a letter... Share some treasures... Give a soft answer... Encourage youth... Manifest your loyalty in word and deed.... Keep a promise... Find the time... Forego a grudge... Forgive an enemy... Listen... Apologize if you were wrong... Try to understand... Reject envy as unworthy... Examine your demands on others... Be kind, be gentle... Laugh a little... Laugh a little more... Deserve confidence... Decry complacency... Take up arms against malice... Express your gratitude... Go to church... Welcome a stranger... Gladden the heart of a child... Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth... Speak your love... Speak it again... Speak it still once again...!

    Christmas is celebration and there is no celebration that compares with the realization of its true meaning... with the sudden stirring of the heart that has extended itself toward the core of life. Then, only then, is it possible to grasp the significance of that first Christmas... to savour in the inward ear the sweet music of the angel choir: to envision the star struck sky and glimpse, behind the eyelids, the ray of light that fell athwart a darkened path and changed the world.