5 Books to Help You Recapture Christmas
If you've lost that holiday spirit, consider reading one of these books to remind you that it's not all about shopping and cooking and Christmas cards.
Christmas -- who needs it! With the rush of the holiday season, what with buying gifts and sending cards and arranging family gatherings, it's easy to lose that Christmas spirit. The endless onslaught of commercial messages that demand we buy more, do it all, create the "perfect" Christmas, whatever that might be -- can suck you dry. And without Christmas spirit, the reasons for which we're presumably doing all of this -- to appreciate our family and friends, to contemplate our Christian beliefs, to be thankful for what we have -- fly away like so many snowflakes. To regain a little of the reason for the season feeling, we suggest you find a quiet place and check out one these books. None is very long, but each is full of sentiment and/or …
