Christmas is not a day or a season, but a condition of heart and mind.
If we love our neighbors as ourselves;
If in our riches we are poor in spirit and in our poverty we are rich in grace;
If our charity vaunteth not itself, but suffereth long and is kind;
If when our brother asks for a loaf, we give ourselves instead;
If each day dawns in opportunity and sets in achievement, however small--
then every day is Christ's day and Christmas is always near.
James Wallingford, in Charles L. Wallis, ed., Words of Life (1966), 33.
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