"You know,we're so lucky, I mean, we're so blessed just to be here in this lovely room surrounded by good and loving friends. Some how that made me think of all the ones that weren't that lucky. The lonely ones in silent,lonely rooms,those for whom this day may have been a day of pain,not of happiness. I should like us to to propose our toast to them. So, if they can somehow hear me now. If the glow from this tree, if the love that's coming from each one of you can reach beyond these walls to those we know,to those we may never know, If we can share somehow the great happiness we feel on this Christmas Eve with them, then perhaps their loneliness may not be quite so lonely. Perhaps they do know: In spirit we are with them. We are with you.
everyone Merry Christmas!"
written by the late
Douglas Watson
