AOM Meditations: 122320

Santa Claus By William Holbrook Beard

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“Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? ”

~Bill Watterson

(The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)

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“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? 

Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, 

forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, 

care for the ill, love your enemies, 

and do unto others 

as you would have done unto you.”

~Steve Maraboli, 

(Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)

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“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?”

~Bob Hope

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“Peace on earth will come to stay, 

When we live Christmas every day.”

~Helen Steiner Rice