Keeping Christmas

Keeping Christmas by Henry van Dyke. Henry van Dyke was a member of the clergy, this story reads like a sermon for good reason. Its full title is A Short Christmas Sermon: Keeping Christmas.Van Dyke also composed lyrics to the popular hymn, "The Hymn of Joy" sung to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, "Ode to Joy."

Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing... to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world— stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death— and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.

Keeping Christmas Leave a Comment “There is a better thing,” said Henry Van Dyke, “than the observance of Christmas Day, and that is, keeping Christmas.”

Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world--stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death--and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.

A Simple Christmas. I remember as a child, sitting at the top of the stairs waiting for my father to tell us we could come downstairs on Christmas morning.The anticipation of Christmas was in the air while the smell of coffee, pine, cinnamon, and oranges fill our senses.

Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world? Stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem two thousand years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.

Keeping Christmas was a good reminder of just where we get our Christmas joy. Judith’s struggles were very real. She didn’t want to be depressed, but all the same she was.

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Keeping Christmas by Dan Walsh is all about one couple dealing with the emptiness of loss at one of the most family oriented times of the year. Stan and Judith Winters are empty nesters. And this year it was painfully ob For many folks, Christmas is a happy time of year.