I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.       
           -------David Grayson

Following Thanksgiving, the world does a deep dive into Christmas, submerged under the weight of advertisements, shopping days, and events. 

Maybe we should contemplate Christmas as a flowing river that finds us and seeps into our senses in deep and meaningful ways.
     ------G. Hill

Nativity flows like an eternal wellspring, to be sipped and savored, streaming with life, every day for you.
      ------G. Hill

Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.
     -----John 4:14

Mindfulness: Quiet Knowings

Interlude