What Is Christmas? 

By Helen Steiner Rice 

Is it just a day at the end of the year?
A season of joy, merrymaking and cheer?
Is it people and presents and glittering trees?
Ah no, it is more than any of these.

For under the tinsel and hidden from sight
Is the promise and meaning of that first Christmas night
When the shepherds stood in wondered awe
And felt transformed by what they saw.

So let us not in our search for pleasure
Forego our right to this priceless treasure
For Christmas is a God-given day
And let us remember to keep it that way.

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