The True Meaning of Christmas (The Eighth Day of Christmas / New Year’s Day) – Howard Thurman

The true meaning of Christmas is expressed in the sharing of one’s graces in a world in which it is so easy to become callous, insensitive, and hard. Once this spirit becomes part of a [person]’s life, every day is Christmas and every night is freighted with the dawning of fresh, and perhaps holy, adventure. —Howard Thurman (The Mood of Christmas & Other Celebrations, p. 19 as found in The Work of Christmas: The Twelve Days of Christmas with Howard Thurman, p. 62)