help with christmas cheer

[fae]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 3:32am

every year i include a short story or poem in my christmas cards. i have run out of good options this year. if anyone has the name or link to a sweet bit of christmas cheer i would greatly appreciate it.

in the past i have used:
yes virginia, there is a santa clause

twas the night before christmas

the littlest angel

gift of the magi

one solitary life



please help if you have any ideas.... thanks!

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 3:44am

the grinch who stole christmas

EDIT: or lyrics to frosty the snowman Updated On: 12/9/04 at 03:44 AM

[feinstein9]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 4:02am

THE BEST WAY TO SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER
IS TO SING LOUDLY FOR ALL TO HEAR!

Updated On: 12/9/04 at 04:02 AM

[fae]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 3:33pm

HELP!!???...... please?

[orion59]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 3:44pm

Try Truman Capote's A Christams Memory. It doesn't initailly come across as the typical, feel good, warm and fuzzy Christmas story but there is a good message in it. You may be able to find some passages that would be appropriate.

[orion59]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 3:55pm

Here's something nice:
A Bell
(Clinton Scollard)

Had I the power
To cast a bell that should from some grand tower,
At the first Christmas hour,
Outring,
And fling
A jubilant message wide,
The forg&#euml;d metals should be thus allied:-
No iron Pride,
But soft Humility, and rich-veined Hope
Cleft from a sunny slope;
And there should be
White Charity,
And silvery Love, that knows not Doubt nor Fear,
To make the peal more clear;
And then to firmly fix the fine alloy,
There should be Joy!

[orion59]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 3:56pm

A Carol For The Children by Ogden Nash

God rest you merry, Innocents,
Let nothing you dismay,
Let nothing wound an eager heart
Upon this Christmas day.

Yours be the genial holly wreaths,
The stockings and the tree;
An aged world to you bequeths
Its own forgotten glee.

Soon, soon enough come cureller gifts,
The anger and the tears;
Between you now there sparsely drifts
A handful yet of years.

Oh, dimly, dimly glows the star
Through the electric throng;
The bidding in temple and bazaar
Drowns out the silver song.

The ancient altars smoke afresh,
The ancient idols stir;
Faint in the reek of burning flesh
Sink frankincense and myrrh.

Gaspar, Balthazar, Melchior!
Where are your offerings now?
What greetings to the Prince of War,
His darkly branded brow?

Two ultimate laws alone we know,
The ledger and the sword --
So far away, so long ago,
We lost the infant Lord.

Only the children clasp His hand;
His voice speaks low to them,
And still for them the shining band
Wings over Bethlehem.

God rest you merry, Innocents,
While innocence endures,
A sweeter Christmas than we to ours
May you bequeath to yours.

[orion59]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 4:00pm

Even better....check out this site:

http://www.christmas-stories.com/index.php

[fae]

Posted: 12/9/04 at 4:07pm

thank you!