Scrooge's Change of Heart: A Christmas Carol

Personal Application: Do you accept the love that is offered you by family and friends? What can you do to make others feel more accepted and loved? How does this open your heart to more of life's possibilities?

By the time the third spirit, the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, comes, Scrooge welcomes him. He has a thankful heart and views the spirit's visit as a chance to learn even more about himself, even though he knows it might be painful. And indeed it is, as Scrooge sees himself as dead and forgotten.

Personal Application: Scrooge realizes that the vision of the future is not the end of story-he still has choices to make that could change that pitiful outcome of his life. How would you like to change the direction of your life? What steps would you need to take? Begin!

Scrooge's nephew explains his own delight with Christmas as a time when people "'open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave.'" Let's open our hearts to Dickens' Christmas message-it's really about us. As Marley's Ghost declares, "'No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!'" Let the Christmas story be our story, too-one of delight, joy and happiness. Let the Christmas spirit be our spirit too!

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