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Dear Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus,
Put into my stocking a dash of Human Kindness. Pour in some of the oil of graciousness, so I can appreciate things.

Give me to play well my part in this big, busy world and to so regulate my life that when I pass on no one can say of me;” He lived for self alone.”

Leave for me a generous package of Good Cheer, so that when my neighbor is weighed down with despair I may go to help him look up and hope anew.

Bring me a jack-in-the-box like the one that set my heart to pit-a-pat in the days agone, only let it be labeled faith and give me to unlock its magic for every heavy heart that comes my way.

Make all the children of the earth glad, dear Santa, but don’t forget the grownups. Write upon the minds and hearts of all who have relinquished the carefreeness of youth for the stern verities of the daily struggle the message that real happiness consists not of material things, but in days spent in the service of one another.

-Author Unknown