Posted by Ryan
December 7, 2008
One writer said: “Again Christmas, abiding point of return. Set apart by its mystery, mood and magic, the season seems, in a way to stand outside time. All that is dear, that is lasting, renews its hold on us: we are home again.”
President David O. McKay (1873–1970) declared: “True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior’s doctrine of losing one’s life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.
“It is the spirit of the gospel of Jesus Christ, obedience to which will bring ‘peace on earth,’ because it means—good will toward all men.”
Giving, not getting, brings to full bloom the Christmas spirit. Enemies are forgiven, friends remembered, and God obeyed. The spirit of Christmas illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than things. To catch the real meaning of the “spirit of Christmas,” we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the “Spirit of Christ.”
– The Best Christmas Ever, Thomas S. Monson
Isn’t this time of year wonderful?
Posted by Ryan
December 4, 2007
I’m so excited! I completely forgot about Christmas themes for Firefox! Last year I used Tinseltown. I tried X-Mas today, but the animated snow flakes were a bit too much so I’m now testing X-Mas Light. So far so good!
Mozilla Links is what reminded me about all of this. They’ve also linked to some Firefox Christmas desktop backgrounds, though that’s a bit too much for me. Firefox is a browser, not my life! Right now my desktop background image is reserved for the Amazon Kindle. Some people movie stars or cars as their background images. I put up nerdy gadgets I want.
Actually, I usually have some spiffy scenic photo as my desktop background. Like this.
I took this on Saturday while it was snowing. It was awesome.
And this post is going no where. The end.
Posted by Ryan
November 5, 2007
Two posts ago, while talking about DailyLit, I mentioned the following:
As soon as it gets closer to Christmas I’m going to read A Christmas Carol.
Well, it turns out that Saturday I was feeling sick and so didn’t go anywhere all day. I got pretty bored in the evening while reading A Tale of Two Cities. I wanted to read something a bit more exciting. So I started reading A Christmas Carol. I read 9 “parts” (DailyLit doesn’t email you a full chapter at a time, only parts of chapters) and went to bed. I had no plans to finish it quickly.
And then today I got on my computer and read the daily email… and then clicked the “send me the next part immediately” link 27 times to finish the book! ha ha!
I don’t like listening to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving, but I didn’t at all mind reading such an excellent a Christmas book.
I will, however, wait in wishing you all happiness in the aforementioned holiday.
