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Each year there is a moment when Christmas arrives. It doesn't arrive
before Halloween when some stores start putting out their Christmas
stuff.
It doesn't happen when the panic hits that old Cousin George will be
here for Christmas, too, and you have no bed for him much less a present
or a stocking.
It hasn't even happened (usually) when you get all the gifts home and
wrapped and even dispersed to where ever they are supposed to go.
Christmas isn't here just because you can't listen to any radio station
without hearing Christmas carols or parodies of Christmas songs.
Sometimes Christmas hasn't even arrived after the wrapping paper fight
after the kids unwrap their gifts and / or demolish the candy bowl
which, of course, also demolishes their appetite for that huge Christmas
dinner which you felt obligated to eat (and wouldn't have missed even if
you didn't feel obligated).
No.... these things may happen around the holidays but...
Christmas arrives when you share with someone else the honest feelings
in your heart of love and caring about that person. The example for
caring and giving above and beyond all logic and reason was given to us
about 2000 years ago when God sent His only Son, a part of Himself, to
bring us the joy of a tiny baby, an example of how to live, and a gift
of life forever with Him, if we choose to accept it.
Christmas is here when it arrives in your heart.
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