When It Is Over,, Christmas Is Over, Right?

 

I'm always on the lookout for new and meaningful Christmas poems.  This one, by the well-known Helen Steiner Rice, was on the back of a vintage Christmas card I recently came upon.  It surely fits in with the spirit of my Christmas blog, since I like to celebrate Christmas all year round (google)

LET US LIVE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY 

Christmas is more than a day at the end of the year, more than a season of joy and good cheer,

Christmas is really God's pattern for living, to be followed all year by unselfish giving ...

For the holiday season awakens good cheer and draws us closer to those we hold dear,

And we open our hearts and find it is Good to live among men As We Always Should ...

But as soon as the tinsel is stripped from the tree, the spirit of Christmas fades silently

Into the background of daily routine and is lost in the whirl of life's busy scene,

And all unawares we miss and forego the greatest blessing that mankind can know ...

For if we lived Christmas each day, as we should, and made it our aim to always do good, 

We'd find the lost key to meaningful living that comes not from Getting, 

but from unselfish Giving.

Helen Steiner Rice 

This is one of my favorite Christmas poems but I have given away all the printed cards I had. Soo, I went to Google and found more information than I was looking for. 

SOOO, Be sure you make Jesus Christ the center of every day!

Blessings, Gma J