From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.
Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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.
For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.