Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Making Room for Kindness

"Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making.  It is more than that.  It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things.  The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and receiving."
J.C. Penney

The season being what it is, I began the day with one school's Christmas play and finished with an Advent Prayer Service for another.

The theme of the morning show was Kindness as the virtue for December and the Christmas season.  At the evening performance, the school headmistress made remarks about the evening and the season.  She asked how would the pause that the performance forced us to make translate into a change in how we continue as we return to the season's busyness?

And it all made me wonder:  Once the cards are sent and the presents bought, what really remains to be done for Christmas?  How can we make room in our hearts for kindness?

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