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We Need A Little Christmas

Posted On Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Under: Grieving during the Holidays, Healing after Loss, The Power of a Positive Outlook, The healing power of Faith in Christ

The song from the Broadway musical “Mame” encourages us to haul out the holly, put up the tree, fill the stockings and hang some tinsel. The reason? Because we “need a little music, need a little laughter, need a little singing ringing through the rafter, we need a little snappy “happy ever after”; we need a little Christmas now.”

What is it about Christmas that makes that “Happy ever after” feeling materialize in our hearts?

On Christmas Eve as we stood around the piano singing carols, I realized once again that it is not because of the tinsel, the holly, or the stockings. The Christmas tree has nothing to do with “Happy ever after”. But there could be no “Happy ever after” if it weren’t for “God’s own Son, the salvation of the world begun[2]. . .”

“The choirs of angels sang at the glory of the sight”, and “the bells of Heaven rang, all through the night”, because it was truly “Love that was sent from above to the earth.” Without that Love – our Savior and Redeemer – our ‘ever afters’ would be dismal and without purpose.

His coming provided the way to “Happy ever after.” It was the greatest gift we ever will receive. As Neal A. Maxwell said, “God’s gifts, unlike seasonal gifts, are eternal and unperishable, constituting a continuing Christmas which is never over! These infinite gifts are made possible by the “infinite Atonement.”

That Christmas feeling in our hearts is hope. That little babe in the manger came to bring us release from the shackles of sin and sorrow, and to show us the path to purity and peace.

Yes, we all “need a little Christmas” – and we need it all year round.

Yours rejoicing in that hope,

Roslyn

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