I thought I'd share the Christmas Spirit from a teenager's perspective.  Never mind this teenager was me, many moons ago.  (I won't tell how many moons that was.) I penned this for my school newspaper The Cougar's Tale.

     Hurray!!! Christmas time is here again.  How can I tell, you ask?  Can't you feel it?  The Christmas Spirit is in the air...

     It's that feeling of warmth inside on the coldest of days.

     It is in the stranger that calls out, "Merry Christmas!"

     It is the Christmas Spirit that inspires super busy teenagers to take out time to go Christmas carolling.

     It causes Mom and Pop to dig a little deeper for the Salvation Army Santa.

     With the Christmas Spirit in us, it doesn't really matter that the church play we've been practicing is the same one we did last year, and the year before, and the year before that...

     It turns a starry December sky into the Heavenly Host of two-thousand years ago. 

     It touches our hearts when we hear children singing "Silent Night" even though they forget some of the words.

     It fills our hearts with compassion for those less fortunate than we. 

     It causes us to speak to the lonely old man who always sits on the court house steps.

     It is the Christmas Spirit that reminds us that this was the night so long ago that a baby was born that changed the life of mankind.

     The Christmas Spirit is Christ:  All He was, is, and will be.  It's the Love He shares, the Peace He brings, and the Hope He gives to all who will receive Him.

     May the Spirit of Christmas be upon you.

(c) Drewe Llyn Polk (Jeffcoat) 1980.

(Ooops! I guess that does tell how many moons!)