Colors of Christmas

What is Christmas?  

It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.  It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.  

~Agnes M. Pahro

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  

the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.  ~Burton Hillis

This is the message of Christmas:  We are never alone.  ~Taylor Caldwell

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. 

 ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Thanks everyone for the gifts definitely add some more colors to my Christmas!