What is Christmas

 

What is Christmas?

Is it just a day at the end of the year, a holiday filled with merriment and good cheer?

Is it a time for the giving and taking of gifts and to indulge in good food and drink?

Have we become lost in the meaningless daze that invades our minds at the sight of the crowds and decorations everywhere?

Have we closed our hearts to God and his love, have we forgotten the bright star above and the real, true meaning of Christmas?

We should ask the Lord to renew and restore our faith, to allow us to remember the real and true meaning of Christmas. So, we can feel in our hearts again that peace and good will to all is still a promise that can be claimed if we just believe.

This is a reworked version of a poem or verse call it what you want by Helen Steiner Rice.