又到了一年一度的圣诞节。去年我从一个小册子上看到了下面这段话，很受感动。今年的圣诞节，我找到了这段话的出处，就把原文放在了后边。

1.  忘记你为别人所做的种种，记住别人为你所做的种种

2.  忽视世人亏欠你的，记住你亏欠世人的

3.  把你的权益放在最后；把你的责任放在中间，但把你可以多做一点事的机会放在最前面

4.  对待你的伙伴就像对你自己一样真诚，透过他们的容貌看到他们的内心，以及他们对欢乐的渴望

5.  承认你活在世上，唯一充分的理由不是要从人生中攫取什么，而是要给予什么

6.  不要抱怨宇宙的管理如何不完善，且看看四周，有哪一个地方你能播下一些欢乐的种子

7.  俯下身子来想想孩子的需求和愿望，也记住渐渐衰老的人们身体的软弱、心头的寂寞

8.  不要问你的朋友爱你多深，且问你对他们是否付出足够的爱

9.  旁人必须牢记在心的事，你也该记住

10. 了解跟你住在一个家里的人真正的需要，不用等到他们开口告诉你

11. 调节你的灯火，使它发出更多光辉、更少的烟；要把灯放在你面前，使你的影子投在你身后

12.  做一个坟墓，把你丑恶的思想埋葬起来；另外造一个花园，种下美好的思想，且要把园门打开

Keeping Christmas

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

Are you willing...

•       to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you;

•       to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world;

•       to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground;

•       to see that men and women are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy;

•       to own up to the fact that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life;

•       to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness.

Are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.

Are you willing...

•       to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children;

•       to remember the weakness and loneliness of people growing old;

•       to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough;

•       to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear in their hearts;

•       to try to understand what those who live in the same home with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you;

•       to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you;

•       to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open—

•       Are you willing to do these things, even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.

Are you willing...

•       to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world—

•       stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death—

•       and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love?

Then you can keep Christmas.

And if you can keep it for a day, why not always?

But you can never keep it alone.