It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. ‘Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.’ I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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. ‘Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.’ Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon which the entire kid year revolved.’
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.’ The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. ‘So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. On this special day, we wish a very Merry Christmas to all who share this season with us in North Georgia. And, for fun, we threw in a few from your favorite holiday movies as well. The text evokes the images of Christmas: a star shining in the night, angels in the skies, followed by a Christmas blessing: 'God bless us, every one, each daughter and each son. The title comes from the line spoken by Tiny Tim in Dickens A Christmas Carol. They can say it far better than we can, so we gladly turn our page over to them. God Bless Us, Every One: Choral Octavo SoundTrax CD: 22.95: View: Share. Rather than pontificate on politics or public issues today, we’d like to defer to some of the world’s great writers and share their thoughts on Christmas and why its meaning resonates through the ages. This year, our weekly Sunday editorial falls on Christmas Eve, the day we gather with loved ones, light candles at evening church services, hang the stockings for Santa and enter the year’s warmest celebration.
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