Bringing to bloom the Christmas spirit
“Christmas is not about getting gifts, but about remembering the Savior, Jesus Christ, and honoring His gift to us.
“Giving, not getting, brings to full bloom the Christmas spirit. Enemies are forgiven, friends remembered, and God obeyed. The spirit of Christmas illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than things.
“To catch the real meaning of the “spirit of Christmas,” we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the “Spirit of Christ.”
— Thomas S. Monson, “The Best Christmas Ever”
Originally published in The Arrow Is Flown - a Tristan Baier weblog
