Keeping Christmas

Looking for a little something extra to fill your days this week?

Sure you are.

I have really enjoyed the free curriculum over at CurrClick (Love CurrClick! God bless the folks at CurrClick!) ever since Barbara first linked to it. (Love Barbara! God bless Barbara!)

I’m sorry. I’ve been feeling a little…giddy these days. I think it’s all the cookie dough.

Anyway, I am making the time this week to fit in this free e-book from CurrClick. It’s wonderful, and its bite-size bits fit perfectly into the gaps.

(You could do these activities over the break, too.)

(Just so you know.)

This morning we read “Keeping Christmas” out loud before my husband went to work. While the littlest of the littles didn’t understand too much, it was just what the bigger kids (read: Mom) needed to hear.

From “Keeping Christmas” by Henry Van Dyke:

“Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow-men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness—are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.”

Amen. So it written. So (we pray) it shall be done.