“There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus Christ.
It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.
It is well to remember that he who gives money gives much; he who gives time gives more; but he who gives of himself gives all.
Christmas isn’t just tinsel and ribbon, unless we have made it so in our lives.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
It is happiness because we see joy in people.
It is forgetting self and finding time for others.
It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
It is peace because we have found peace in the Savior’s teachings.
It is the time we realize most deeply that the more love is expended, the more there is of it for others.”
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
It is happiness because we see joy in people.
It is forgetting self and finding time for others.
It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
It is peace because we have found peace in the Savior’s teachings.
It is the time we realize most deeply that the more love is expended, the more there is of it for others.”
May we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright, particular star to guide us to our Christmas opportunity in service to our fellow man.
May we all make the journey to Bethlehem in spirit, taking with us a tender, caring heart as our gift to the Savior, and may one and all have a joy-filled Christmas.”
The above is part of the 2012 message given at the annual LDS Christmas Devotional, as a gift to the world, by President Thomas S. Monson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Go here if you would like to watch the entire devotional and hear the beautiful Christmas music provided by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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