What To Do This Christmas (and every day) / Anne MacCormack

Mend a quarrel.
Seek out a forgotten friend. 
Dismiss suspicion, and replace it with trust. 
Share some treasure.  Encourage youth. 
Manifest your loyalty in word and deed.
Give a soft answer.  Decry complacency. 
Keep a promise.  Find the time
Forego a grudge.  Forgive an enemy.
Listen.  Apologize if you were wrong..  Try to understand.
Examine your demands on others. 
Think first of someone else.  Appreciate others.  Be kind. 
Be gentle.  Laugh a little.  Laugh a little more.
Express your gratitude.  Worship the Lord,
Go to church., Welcome a stranger.
Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.
Speak of your love.  Speak it again.

 Christmas is a celebration, and there is no celebration that compares with the realization of its true meaning—with the stirring of the heart that has extended itself toward the core of life.  Then, and only then, is it possible to grasp the significance of that first Christmas—to savor in the inward ear the sweet music of the angel choir; to envision the star-struck sky, and glimpse, behind the eyelids, the ray of light that fell athwart a darkened path and changed the world.

—Author Unknown