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    The True Christmas Spirit: Let Peace and Joy Fill Your Heart
    The True Christmas Spirit: Let Peace and Joy Fill Your Heart
    The True Christmas Spirit: Let Peace and Joy Fill Your Heart
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    The True Christmas Spirit: Let Peace and Joy Fill Your Heart

    By Brian Morgan

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    That surge of Christmas Spirit
    If you want to feel again the surge of Christmas Spirit in your life and to share that spirit with family and friends, The True Christmas Spirit delivers what it promises – peace and joy to fill your heart. It’s a Christmas gift book that is being read and reread and passed between friends every year.
    It contains three beautiful Brian Morgan stories, plus the writings of some of the world’s most endearing minds.
    The first story, The Legend of the Christmas Scrolls, is a rebirth of “a classic little gem of a book” that became a sell-out bestseller in the US, the UK and Japan, when a version of it first appeared some years ago as The Legend of the Christmas Prayer. So many people have asked to see it published again. It’s about giving when you have nothing to give.
    The second story, The Greatest Gift, is about the real and beautiful things we can give each other, and, again, money is not necessary.
    The third story, Silent Night: The True Story of a Christmas Miracle, is bound to touch a chord with those who love the feeling of peace and goodwill that Christmas brings.
    You’ll read that the Christmas Spirit can come upon you anywhere, anytime. It will suddenly fill you with love, with joy, with happiness, with a deep feeling of peace.
    It can simply come because it’s the time of giving. The Three Wise Men started it, and each of us try to follow the tradition by finding gifts for those we love. And the gift if not as important as the thought behind it.
    The spirit can come with the voice of a friend, the hug of a loved one, the smiles, the laughter, the food (if you are fortunate), the jabbering voices, the sanctity of the church or chapel or holy place.
    It can come simply because love is in the air and because peace and goodwill to all can be so infectious. Troubles and differences and pain and sorrow can be forgotten for this brief, beautiful time of giving and sharing.
    The True Christmas Spirit is a gift that will keep on giving; a book you’ll want to read and share every Christmas.

    What others say:
    Thank you for The Legend. My family all took turns reading it on Christmas Eve. Everyone was impressed and moved.
    The late Jane Jordan Browne, literary agent, Chicago.

    A unique Christmas book with a beautiful message and wonderful potential. People keep falling in love with it. This is a rare book destined to be a classic.
    Terri Gibbs, Project Editor, Thomas Nelson.

    This is surely a real gem of Christmas literature. It will give your loved ones not just a token of your love at Christmas, but something to carry them through the year.
    Evelyn Purdy, Radio WLJN.

    Your story is so meaningful, so inspired. We are being swamped with calls.
    Shiloh Gideon, BGEA, Decision Today Radio.

    We are getting letters from folks using your book at Christmas parties, programs at schools and churches etc. They all say such wonderful things.
    Michelle Orr, Thomas Nelson.

    Every Christmas, I try to find a book that will reflect the true meaning of the holiday spirit. Well, I found it in Mr Morgan’s book. In this world of trying to find the perfect gifts, we learn that the perfect gifts are those within us. Beautifully written and illustrated, the book is an easy read and a wonderful way to spread the true meaning of Christmas.
    Anne M. Spiller, Ohio.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Morgan
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9781310294136
    The True Christmas Spirit: Let Peace and Joy Fill Your Heart
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    Brian Morgan

    30 years in my trade and I have had the pleasure of meeting so many lovely people. As a man of strong principles, I soon decided to work for myself. I’m an experienced and skilled kitchen fitter, thriving on completely satisfied customers. However, nothing annoys me more than trivial complaints when there are so many in the world with so little! As an optimist in life, I always try to focus on what I have, not what I don’t; always trying to see the good in others and aspiring to help others whenever I can. Who knows what I’ll do next!

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      The True Christmas Spirit - Brian Morgan

      The True

      Christmas

      Spirit

      Let Peace and Joy

      Fill your Heart

      Brian Morgan

      ~~~~~

      This Smashwords edition first published for world-wide distribution in 2013 by The Writers Trust. Copyright 2013 Brian Morgan and The Writers Trust.

      This book is associated with the website http://www.brianmorganbooks.com. An illustrated paperback version of this book is available online.

      The author gratefully acknowledges that this book could not have been published without the hard work, advice and loving support of his wife of 50 years, Judy Morgan.

      ~~~~~

      Contents

      Introduction

      The Legend of the Christmas Scrolls:

      The Story of the Twelve Wishes

      The Original Christmas Story

      The Greatest Gift:

      It’s the Gift we all Crave

      What Christmas Means Through the Years

      Silent Night:

      The True Story of a Christmas Miracle

      A Word from the Author

      About the Author

      ~~~~~

      Introduction

      What is it about Christmas? What is it that makes the world pause and hearts open up and peace and goodwill abound?

      Some say it’s magic. Some call it a mystery that doesn’t really need to be solved, just enjoyed. We all tend to call it simply the Christmas Spirit. And it’s different for each of us.

      Religion is behind it, of course, but why is it that people around the world of different religions really love Christmas?

      There are simply no words to tell you what I feel at Christmas, but I really want to show you glimpses of that Christmas Spirit.

      I hope and believe that, although our lives may be different, the same heart beats within each one of us and the same feelings swamp our lives at this time of the year.

      What started it for me? Well…

      Once upon a Christmas time, long ago, when I was about six, I was at a neighbour’s home while my mother was in hospital. I was playing in the back yard and I think I caught my first tadpole (or some such momentous event). I raced up the path and burst in through the door to show my Aunty Jean. It was a moment to shape a lifetime.

      There, on the couch, sat my aunt with her new-born son at her breast. I was absolutely stunned. I had never seen anything like this before. She made no attempt to cover up, but just smiled and quietly asked me to wait outside. I still remember her serenity. I think I did as she asked, but this was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Thinks like this were never talked about in those days, but, instantly, I knew what was going on. I knew she was feeding the baby. I understood with the sudden clarity of an epiphany.

      Awe for Women

      In that instant, I realised that this woman, and all women, were very special. They actually gave birth to babies and, wow, nurtured them. The awe I felt then for women has never left me, nearly seven decades later.

      And the baby boy… The new-born smell of this baby remained the most beautiful smell in my memory, until my own children were born.

      I don’t know when the insight came to me, whether it was immediate or crept up gradually because it was Christmas, but this baby made me change the way I thought of the other baby, born 2000 years before, and nurtured in a stable.

      Until that day, when I burst in on a mother and her baby, I had thought of Christmas as just a time for

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