Christmas Reflections

Christmas Reflections

a quotation poem selected and arranged by Franklin Baer

It was always said of him,

that he knew how to keep Christmas well. . .

--Charles Dickens

Yet Christmas is like a microwave dinner,

it's here before you're really ready for it.

--Robert Orben

It's the season when you buy this year's gifts

with next year's money,

--Unknown

And when you musn't forget to mail your packages early,

so the post office can lose them in tine for Christmas.

--Johnny Carson

It's also been said that too much Christmas shopping

can even lead to Santa Claustrophobia.

--Unknown

So most people just sigh and say "Christmas comes,

but once a year is enough."

--American Proverb,

Unfortunately the real meaning of Christmas

has been overlaid by sentimental varnish and commercial dust.

--Rev. Myron Taylor

Rings and jewels are not gifts,

but apologies for gifts, --

for the only [true] gift is a portion of thyself.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

And every gift, though it be small,

is in reality great if given with affection

--Pindar

Still. . . businessmen are saying

that this could be the greatest Christmas ever.

I always thought that the first one was --

--Art Fetting

When the Son of God became man

to enable men to become the sons of God,

--C. S. Lewis

And when Christmas is the gift from heaven

of God's son given for free --

--Charlotte Carpenter

So that at Christmas,

man is almost what God sent him here to be.

--Edgar Guest

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart,

You won't find it under the tree.

--Charlotte Carpenter