'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” What a striking promise Scrooge makes to the Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come in the closing pages of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It is one that often comes to mind in the early part of January. For myself at least, the question often arises: what now? How should Christmas change me?
The challenge can seem especially pressing in January, by some distance my least favourite month. Although we are past the winter solstice, it still feels dark and gloomy and cold. Spring remains a long way off. Maintaining the Christmas spirit is not straightforward.
