I’d describe Hamilton Wright Mabie’s optimistic message as coining a counter fact to the consumerism and gluttony that too often seems to parade as our modern day Christmas. As Mary Baker Eddy once put it in her own wry style: “Mother wishes you all a happy Christmas, a feast of Soul and a famine of sense.” (Miscellany)
For my part, I trust and pray we can all find a healthy balance between the secular and the sacred over the holiday period. I hope you enjoy gift-giving and time spent with family and/or friends. But I also hope you can carve out space for quiet communion with your Creator and to ponder the deeper meaning of the season.
Thank you for your support of this website throughout the past year. There’s still more to come before finally signing off for 2015…and then look forward to a new look for our website in 2016!
Happy Christmas!
Tony L.
TonyLobl.com 
Dear Tony Thank you so much for your insightful writings. Happy Christmas Suzi
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Thanks, Suzi. And happy Christmas to you, too!
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Thank you, Tony! Always a slam dunk from you. So appreciate your good thoughts. Merry Christmas to you & J! ❤️🎄❤️
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Thanks, Mia. Happy Christmas to you and yours, too! 🙂
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I look forward to your post every week. Thank you!
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Tony, what a lovely reminder that both the gift, and the love behind it matter…and that the whole world can be wrapped in that same love.
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A conspiracy of love! What a fresh and compelling idea. To love where the recipient least expects it!
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Thank you for the spiritual insight you give. You have truly broadened my thinking on many things.
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Thanks, Barbara. Happy Christmas!
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Tony, I have enjoyed reading your blog as well as your articles in our periodicals. In a Live Chat you stated that ” The Christ is all there is to the crisis” .
That has been a beacon of light for me over and over again and has destroyed fear and darkness.
Thank you!
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I am so glad that has been helpful to you, Christine. Thanks for letting me know!
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