Although this video isn’t actually a “Christmas” story, it really does capture the essence and spirit of this special day… and since so many of us gather around the tree on Christmas morning with a cup of coffee in hand, I hope this video will touch you and the lives of people you care about! [...]

Story written by Annie. I hurried into the local department store to grab some last minute Christmas gifts. I looked at all the people and grumbled to myself. I would be in here forever and I just had so much to do. Christmas was beginning to become such a drag. I kinda wished that I [...]

— Author Unknown Just a week before Christmas I had a visitor. This is how it happened. I just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to bed when I heard a noise in the front of the house. I opened the door to the front room, and to my [...]

— Author Unknown Pa never had much compassion for the lazy or those who squandered their means and then never had enough for the necessities.  But for those who were genuinely in need, his heart was as big as all outdoors.   It was from him that I learned the greatest joy in life comes from [...]

— Author Unknown It’s just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so. It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas—oh, not the true meaning of Christmas, but [...]

Story written by Oliver Bell Bunce “I hate holidays,” said Bachelor Bluff to me, with some little irritation, on a Christmas a few years ago. Then he paused an instant, after which he resumed: “I don’t mean to say that I hate to see people enjoying themselves. But I hate holidays, nevertheless, because to me [...]

Story written by Olive Thorne Miller “I declare for ‘t, to-morrow is Christmas Day an’ I clean forgot all about it,” said old Ann, the washerwoman, pausing in her work and holding the flatiron suspended in the air. “Much good it’ll do us,” growled a discontented voice from the coarse bed in the corner. “We [...]

Story written by Cathy Richards At the age of 82, my mother went to heaven on May 22 of this year. For all my 47 years, I spent Christmas with Mom back in our hometown in upstate New York, even the last nine while I’ve been a California resident. This first Christmas without her will [...]

Special thanks to L. M. McCleland – author and contributor of this story! It seemed just a moment later that I awoke with Mom shaking my arm. She was saying, “Wake up, honey. We’re all here.” I came to and looked around the table. The whole family was seated and loaded down with piles of [...]

Special thanks to L. M. McCleland – author and contributor of this story! I was tooling around with my fifth batch of kids when we noticed a column of smoke rising a few blocks away down the road. Five minutes later, a fire truck went by with its siren blaring. As soon as we stopped, [...]