American clergyman and author, Roy L. Smith, said this: “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
A bit cheesy perhaps, but oh so true. Christmas is lovely. But it will come and it will go. Your heart, dear ones, is what will last, what is eternal.
Scripture has much to say about our hearts. One truth is this: “Out of the mouth, the heart speaketh.” We know that not only the mouth speaketh (great word, we should use it more often), but our faces and our hands and our movements and actions also speak(eth) from the heart. Pretty much everything we say and do and smirk and smile and think begins in that beautiful, red, nine ounce center of being.
There will be gifts. There will be food and drink. There will be conversation and laughter. But ol’ Roy is right. Christmas must be in your heart for it to really matter. And it needs to be there always; 24/7/365.
Benjamin Franklin said that a good conscience is a continual Christmas. It may be a place to start.