Day 362: Are You Willing…

Corinthians 9:15
“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”

 

 

 

“Are you willing…

To stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children;

To remember the weaknesses and loneliness of people who are growing old;

To stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough;

To bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts;

To trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you;

To make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open?

Are you willing to do these things for a day?

Then you are ready to keep Christmas!

After all, Christmas-living is the best kind of Christmas-giving.”

― by Henry Van Dyke