What to write in a Christmas card: Festive quotes, poems, messages, wishes and greetings
Once the gifts are wrapped and the cards are sent it's finally time to relax.
Given that you’ve got about a week left until the last posting dates before Christmas, it’s time to get your cards written and sent.
This year, people may not be able to meet with all their friends and family due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and so more and more people are taking to writing cards to wish their loved ones a Merry Christmas.
Not a natural writer? Worry not, as we have compiled a list of greetings and poems that are sure to let the recipient know how you are thinking of them this festive season.
Festive quotes
1) ‘Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values’ – Thomas S. Monson
2) ‘Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year’ – Joel Osteen
3) ‘And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time’ – Jesus Christ
4) ‘Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection’ – Winston Churchill
5) ‘I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year’ – Charles Dickens
6) ‘Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas’ – Calvin Coolidge
7) ‘Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace’ – Pope Francis
8) ‘Christmas is the day that holds all time together’ – Alexander Smith
9) ‘Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart’ – Washington Irving
Christmas poems
1) A Child’s Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
2) Christmas Eve by Anne Sexton
Oh sharp diamond, my mother!
I could not count the cost
of all your faces, your moods-
that present that I lost.
Sweet girl, my deathbed,
my jewel-fingered lady,
your portrait flickered all night
by the bulbs of the tree.
3) A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy
South of the Line, inland from far Durban,
A mouldering soldier lies–your countryman.
Awry and doubled up are his gray bones,
And on the breeze his puzzled phantom moans
Nightly to clear Canopus: “I would know
By whom and when the All-Earth-gladdening Law
Of Peace, brought in by that Man Crucified,
Was ruled to be inept, and set aside?
Christmas is come and every hearth
Makes room to give him welcome now
E’en want will dry its tears in mirth
And crown him wi’ a holly bough
Tho tramping ‘neath a winters sky
O’er snow track paths and rhymey stiles
The huswife sets her spining bye
And bids him welcome wi’ her smiles
Each house is swept the day before
And windows stuck wi’ evergreens
The snow is beesom’d from the door
And comfort crowns the cottage scenes
Gilt holly wi’ its thorny pricks
And yew and box wi’ berrys small
These deck the unus’d candlesticks
And pictures hanging by the wall
Messages, greetings and wishes to send this Christmas
1) A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm and we all go through it together. Lets buckle up and enjoy the ride.
2) May this Christmas end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year. Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
3) You make the stars shine brighter and the winter days warmer just by being in my life. Merry Christmas to my favourite person in the world.
4) May you feel all the love and joy I have for you throughout this festive season and all year round. Having you as my friend brings me great joy.
5) Celebrate the Wonder and the Joy of the Festive Season. Merry Christmas
6) To a joyful present and a well remembered past. Best wishes for Happy Holidays and a magnificent New Year.
7) This festive season is so much more than Christmas parties and gift giving. May your Christmas be filled with the true miracles and meaning of this beautiful time
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