Posted By Russ Emerson on December 25, 2004 at 11:00 pm
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
The Gospel according to John, Chapter 1, verses 1-5
Posted By Russ Emerson on December 25, 2004 at 10:00 pm
You know something, sweetheart? Christmas is… well, it’s about the best time of the whole year.
When you walk down the streets, even for weeks before Christmas comes, and there’s lights hanging up, green ones and red ones, sometimes there’s snow and everyone’s hustling some place. But they don’t hustle around Christmastime like they usually do. You know, they’re a little more friendlier… they bump into you, they laugh and they say, “Pardon me. Merry Christmas”… especially when it gets real close to Christmas night. Everybody’s walking home, you can hardly hear a sound. Bells are ringin’, kids are singing, the snow is coming down.
And boy what a pleasure it is to think that you’ve got some place to go to. And that the place that you’re going to, there’s somebody in it that you really love. Someone you’re nuts about.
Merry Christmas.
Jackie Gleason, as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners