I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!