Visiting Christmases Past, “Christmas Inspiration”
My gift to you this month is to share with you visits of blog posts from Christmases past on Wednesdays. No comments needed. My desire is to add holiday cheer to your day. It just so happens on this date in 2011, I shared this post.
“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.” — Joan Winmill Brown
“Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.” — Grace Noll Crowell
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“Late on a sleepy, star-spangled night, those angels peeled back the sky just like you would tear open a sparkling Christmas present. Then, with light and joy pouring out of Heaven like water through a broken dam, they began to shout and sing the message that baby Jesus had been born. The world had a Savior! The angels called it “Good News, ” and it was.” — Larry Libby (“The Angels Called it Good News” in Christmas Stories for the Heart)
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“Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years… Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.” — George Matthew Adams (The Christmas Heart)
Here are more wonderful Christmas Inspirational Quotes!
Let the spirit of Christmas live in your heart not one day a year, but 365 days!
DH has the week off and while I won’t be present in Blogosphere I do have a second Christmas edition of BOTB scheduled for tomorrow. Have a holly, jolly good time! X💋X💋, Cathy
11 Comments
Debbie D.
Thank you for sharing this lovely post, Cathy. Ella Fitzgerald was amazing! If only people would keep that Christmas spirit all ‘year round, the world would be a better place. Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy holiday season. Merry Christmas! 🎄🌟🎉
15andmeowing
Happy Birthday! XO
Cathy Kennedy
Thank you, Ellen! 🙂
Brian
Very pretty, a Christmas heart should live all year.
messymimi's meanderings
That was lovely, thank you!
Sognafaret
Nothing like cristmas
Nicole/DVArtist
Really wonderful post. How can one go wrong with Ella? Have a very nice day today.
Sandee
A beautiful post, Cathy. You made me smile and I love the video.
Enjoy your time with DH.
Have a blessed day and rest of the week. Love and hugs. ♥
Birgit
Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a state of mind. I think qe need to realize what Christmas is and stop looking at the negative. Great song by Ella who sang it the way it should be done.
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
I looked for this post at 6 am, and when I didn’t find it, I got busy with “family matters.” I’m sure you remember our conversation and know what that means. I really appreciate how you are re-publishing posts you presented at Christmas time in the years before I knew you. I wish that you and I had already been friends in 2011, or even in 1981, for that matter. Yessum, “the Christmas heart is a giving heart,” – inspiring words that we should keep with us, words to guide us through all 365 days of the year. Now more than ever, it is vitally important for everyone to come from a spirit of love, tolerance, forgiveness and goodwill too all.
Thank you for sharing “the best of CAAC” as you are doing in this wonderful Christmas rerun series. I hope this day finds your precious LA responding to her meds, feeling better and breathing easier.
Bless you, dear friend Cathy!
Deborah Ann
What a beautiful post! My spirit was literally warmed and bathed in Jesus love as I pondered here.
Cathy, thank you so much for your prayers for my friends! You really have a beautiful heart, and a caring spirit. I am glad to know you.
Merry Christmas, my friend…