this Christmas...

This Christmas, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love and then speak it again.

Howard W. Hunter, "The Gifts of Christmas", Ensign, Dec. 2002, 16

Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.


Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1981 (Post scriptum to letter, 1 July 1925, to F. Scott Fitzgerald)