A Christmas Wish To YOU!

My Christmas Wish To YOU

If I could wish a wish for you,
it would be for peace and happiness not only now,
but for the whole year through!

I wish that there always be food on your table.
And that you always remember those less fortunate.
May you always take time to share, and thank those who share with you.

I wish for time, so you may reflect
on the blessings that you have, and that you express your love
to those who are dear to you.

May you never feel lonely,
because there are those who care.
That you realize: you are special,
you are unique, you make a difference,
not only at Christmas, but all year!

I wish for your thoughts to be positive the ones,
that you never quit, that you never give up,
and that you continue to learn.
I wish for the love, peace, and joy
of Christmas to be yours always, and forever in your heart

With love and blessed moments,

Charlie Farricielli and the Rosefarm.Com International Family

 

On Christmas Eve I was with my family and friends at a social gathering which also included some acquaintances from outside of our group. After a short time at the festivities a gentleman who I just met got up to make a toast. I must admit that my chemo adjusted stomach cannot tolerate any alcohol so I was about to raise my glass of ginger ale while others raised their glass of champagne.
The speaker said " Christmas wishes to all and let's celebrate this year like it is our last Christmas." There was an uneasy quiet in the room. I could not raise my glass up to join in this toast. My family and friends knew all to well the battle that we were in. The other 50% of the participants had no idea. I could see the uncomfortable look on the part of my family once these words were uttered. I have said many times that my family protects me like a herd of wild elephants--I am the wounded herd member in the center of a circle and they want to protect me from outside forces and this toast was obviously perceived as an outside force to my well being.
I slowly rose from my chair and asked if I could extend a second toast for all assembled. I then stated:
" A Christmas toast for love, happiness and health for all assembled. Let us celebrate like it is the first Christmas of the rest of our life."
I could raise my glass and slowly sip the ginger ale and thought to myself about the proverbial "Is the glass half full or half empty?" I raise my glass this morning to all my friends on this site---Let's celebrate like it is the first Christmas of many more to come. May the light always find you on a dreary day.
When you need to be home, may you find your way.
May you always have courage to take a chance
And never find frogs in your underpants.

 

Here are some of the best Christmas quotes that you have ever read. The reason I think that these are the best Christmas quotes is that they truly convey the joy of Christmas. Enjoy these Christmas quotes and spread the Christmas cheer.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Extension
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
Louisa May Alcott
The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.
Charles N. Barnard
The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
W. J. Tucker, Pulpit Preaching
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Dr. Seuss
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
G. K. Chesterton
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Dale Evans
Christmas, my child, is love in action.
Andy Rooney
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
Hugh Downs
Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.
Freya Stark
Christmas is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Marjorie Holmes
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status. Here are some celebrity quotes about Christmas. You will find that just like everybody else, celebrities also enjoy the little pleasures of Christmas.

Bob Hope
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Joan Rivers
The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.
Bart Simpson
Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Erma Bombeck
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Bernard Manning
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bing Crosby
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
Margaret Thatcher
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Calvin Coolidge
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Bart Simpson
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know… the birth of Santa.
Bob Hope
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

Here are a few more Christmas quotations for the holidays.

· "Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."
- Bess Streeter Aldrich

· "Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
- Oren Arnold

· "I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!'"
- Ray Stannard Baker

· "The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!"
- Charles N. Barnard

· "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
- Erma Bombeck

· "Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
- Peg Bracken

· "The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."
- Phillips Brooks

· "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

· "This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."
- Taylor Caldwell

· "Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree."
- Charlotte Carpenter

· "To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world."
- Calvin Coolidge

· "Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man."
- Margaret Cousins

· "Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'."
- Bing Crosby

· "It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit."
- Isabel Currier

· "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
- Charles Dickens

· "Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget."
- Hugh Downs

· "They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
- Mrs. Paul M. Ell

· "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
- W. T. Ellis

· "Christmas, my child, is love in action."
- Dale Evans

· "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
- Lenore Hershey

· "My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still."
- Charlton Heston