My love for you is like the Christmas season:
Joyful, yet with knowledge of the end.
My need for you has neither hope nor reason:
If not a lover, please, just be a friend.

Christmas wises tried and true,
I’m sending now, just for you,
a little love, a little cheer,
and wishes for a great New Year…

May you feel such love as lights the morning,
Even at this darkest time of year,
Rippling through your heart with little warning,
Returning you to wonder and to fear.

I want you to be here with me for Christmas,
Even if you leave your heart at home.
I know that lately my love makes you restless,
But it’s too hard to spend this time alone….

Lord, this is my prayer
Not only on Christmas Day
But until I see You face to face
May I live my life this way..

The unconditional love of Christ
That reaches deeper than we know
Exists not because of what we are
But “in spite of,” “anyhow,” and “even though.

Every day is Christmas
When you have the kind of mind,
That stores up all the goodness
And the sweetness it can find.

Somehow not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.

A good time is coming, I wish it were here
The very best time in the whole of the year
I’m counting each day on my fingers and thumbs
the weeks that must pass before Santa Claus comes..

My heart is totally filled with things
That words alone can’t say,
This comes especially for you
With love on Christmas Day.