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A Keepsake Christmas
Christmas is an enduring celebration that unites generations. We share so much of ourselves and our memories during the holiday festivities, and A Keepsake Christmas is designed to help capture that loving nostalgia. This gift book is fashioned for those of us who, especially during the Christmas season, long to weave our relationships into a richly textured fabric of love and community, creating the kind of sanctuary in our homes that expresses the love in our hearts. In their warm, personal style, Alice and Susan have created a collection holiday stories, poignant quotes, poems, vignettes, and favorite carols dispersed throughout the text that are cozy as candlelight.
120 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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January 3, 2024
I am still cleaning up my Christmas reading and I just finished this one. Someone gifted it to me and it is a lovely book with several nice reminders on how we can keep the real meaning of the season. Perhaps next year I will have the energy and the wherewithal to follow through on some of the recipes and projects offered in the book. There were a number of nice quotes to remember.
"There has only been one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries." -W.J. Cameron
"Keeping Christmas is good, but sharing it is better." -Arnold Glass
"Blue homespun and the bend of my breast
keep warm this small, hot naked star
fallen to my arms. (Rest...you who have had so far to come.)
Now nearness satisfies
the body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies
whose vigor hurled a universe.
He sleeps whose eyelids have not closed before.
His breath (so slight it seems
no breath at all) once ruffled the dark deeps
to sprout a world.
Charmed by doves' voices, the whisper of straw,
he dreams,
hearing no music from his other spheres.
Breath, mouth, ears, eyes -
he is curtailed
who overflowed all skies,
all years.
Older than eternity, now he
is new. Now native to earth as I am, nailed
to my poor planet, caught that I might be free,
blind in my womb to know my darkness ended,
brought to this birth
for me to be new-born,
and for him to see me mended,
I must see him torn."
(Mary's Song by Luci Shaw)
"My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still." -Charlton Heston
"The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again."-Florence Littauer
"My grandparents always have a brightly wrapped package under the tree with 'Jesus' written on the tag. The box has a slit in the top, and everyone secretively puts money in it to donate to a charitable organization or needy family." -Breanah Gray
"After Christmas, we'll store the tree under the porch until the Friday before Easter, when we'll take the barren tree and fashion it into a cross. On Easter morning, our family will decorate it again, this time with flowers and colorful eggs symbolizing new life in the resurrected Lord." -David and Kristie Stroder
"There has only been one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries." -W.J. Cameron
"Keeping Christmas is good, but sharing it is better." -Arnold Glass
"Blue homespun and the bend of my breast
keep warm this small, hot naked star
fallen to my arms. (Rest...you who have had so far to come.)
Now nearness satisfies
the body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies
whose vigor hurled a universe.
He sleeps whose eyelids have not closed before.
His breath (so slight it seems
no breath at all) once ruffled the dark deeps
to sprout a world.
Charmed by doves' voices, the whisper of straw,
he dreams,
hearing no music from his other spheres.
Breath, mouth, ears, eyes -
he is curtailed
who overflowed all skies,
all years.
Older than eternity, now he
is new. Now native to earth as I am, nailed
to my poor planet, caught that I might be free,
blind in my womb to know my darkness ended,
brought to this birth
for me to be new-born,
and for him to see me mended,
I must see him torn."
(Mary's Song by Luci Shaw)
"My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still." -Charlton Heston
"The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again."-Florence Littauer
"My grandparents always have a brightly wrapped package under the tree with 'Jesus' written on the tag. The box has a slit in the top, and everyone secretively puts money in it to donate to a charitable organization or needy family." -Breanah Gray
"After Christmas, we'll store the tree under the porch until the Friday before Easter, when we'll take the barren tree and fashion it into a cross. On Easter morning, our family will decorate it again, this time with flowers and colorful eggs symbolizing new life in the resurrected Lord." -David and Kristie Stroder
December 22, 2018
I read this book every year. It was a gift from my mother. While the content is for religious women (I am no really either of those things), many stories and ideas warm my heart at Christmas. I’ll read it again next year.
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