Favorite Christmas movies and specials

 December 3: 

Advent Calendar December 3, 2022: One of my favorite holiday classics!  The Grinch who Stole Christmas.  Along with those great stop motion animation shows like Santa Clause is coming to Town and Rudolph. What were your favorite Christmas Specials as a child?

The ones that also stand out for me is the Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, and of course in later years it was live action movies such as It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34^th Street (the original from 1947), Holiday Inn, and White Christmas.  Every year I try hard to watch a few, if not all of these shows.  They never seem to get old and on occasion, I still get a little emotional with some of these.  The best is to have them playing in the background as we decorate the house and enjoy the sentimental feelings we get from the Spirit of Christmas.  As the years go by, it seems like we lose a little of that spirit, but I can tell you that for me it is still there.  If we still believe in the meaning and spirit of Christmas we can be happy.  Even if we look at this strictly from a secular point of view, isn’t “Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men (people) a great ideal?  Something to aspire to?  And you got to admit, the story of the birth of Christ is an amazing story right?  It can give you a lot of hope, even on these Dark, Cold, Lonely Evenings at the end of the year.