Christmas Day in the Morning: Awakening the Joy of Christmas

by: Pearl S. Buck, David Warner,

The true joy of Christmas is to love and to awaken love.

In this adaptation of “Christmas Day in the Morning,” Rob looks back on his boyhood and remembers giving an unusual gift of self—a gift that filled him with Christmas joy. Now, fifty years later, Rob realizes he can still give a gift from his heart.

The original Pearl S. Buck story, published in Collier’s magazine in 1955, concludes with the older Rob writing a letter of gratitude and love to his wife. As he does, Christmas joy is awakened in him once again.

The final pages of this book provide a place for you to write your own letter of gratitude and love—a letter that will naturally be included when you give this book to a family member, neighbor, or friend. As you do, you may experience what Rob learned as a boy, and then again as a man: the gifts most likely to rekindle Christmas joy are not just the presents we give with our hands, but the gratitude we express from our hearts.

Meet the Author

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck wrote Christmas Day in the Morning in 1955. She was a prolific author and earned a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Good Earth. The daughter of Christian missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Upon her return to the United States in 1935, she became an advocate for women’s rights and racial equality.

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Christmas Day in the Morning: Awakening the Joy of Christmas October 6, 2020

Meet the Author

David Warner

David Warner received his PhD in theatre and film from Brigham Young University and has worked with The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (formerly known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) for more than a decade.

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