The True Christmas Spirit: Let Peace and Joy Fill Your Heart

by Brian Morgan

Overview

That surge of Christmas Spirit
If you want to feel again the surge of Christmas Spirit in your life and to share that spirit with family and friends, The True Christmas Spirit delivers what it promises – peace and joy to fill your heart. It’s a Christmas gift book that is being read and reread and passed between friends every year.
It contains three beautiful Brian Morgan stories, plus the writings of some of the world’s most endearing minds.
The first story, The Legend of the Christmas Scrolls, is a rebirth of “a classic little gem of a book” that became a sell-out bestseller in the US, the UK and Japan, when a version of it first appeared some years ago as The Legend of the Christmas Prayer. So many people have asked to see it published again. It’s about giving when you have nothing to give.
The second story, The Greatest Gift, is about the real and beautiful things we can give each other, and, again, money is not necessary.
The third story, Silent Night: The True Story of a Christmas Miracle, is bound to touch a chord with those who love the feeling of peace and goodwill that Christmas brings.
You’ll read that the Christmas Spirit can come upon you anywhere, anytime. It will suddenly fill you with love, with joy, with happiness, with a deep feeling of peace.
It can simply come because it’s the time of giving. The Three Wise Men started it, and each of us try to follow the tradition by finding gifts for those we love. And the gift if not as important as the thought behind it.
The spirit can come with the voice of a friend, the hug of a loved one, the smiles, the laughter, the food (if you are fortunate), the jabbering voices, the sanctity of the church or chapel or holy place.
It can come simply because love is in the air and because peace and goodwill to all can be so infectious. Troubles and differences and pain and sorrow can be forgotten for this brief, beautiful time of giving and sharing.
The True Christmas Spirit is a gift that will keep on giving; a book you’ll want to read and share every Christmas.

What others say:
Thank you for The Legend. My family all took turns reading it on Christmas Eve. Everyone was impressed and moved.
The late Jane Jordan Browne, literary agent, Chicago.

A unique Christmas book with a beautiful message and wonderful potential. People keep falling in love with it. This is a rare book destined to be a classic.
Terri Gibbs, Project Editor, Thomas Nelson.

This is surely a real gem of Christmas literature. It will give your loved ones not just a token of your love at Christmas, but something to carry them through the year.
Evelyn Purdy, Radio WLJN.

Your story is so meaningful, so inspired. We are being swamped with calls.
Shiloh Gideon, BGEA, Decision Today Radio.

We are getting letters from folks using your book at Christmas parties, programs at schools and churches etc. They all say such wonderful things.
Michelle Orr, Thomas Nelson.

Every Christmas, I try to find a book that will reflect the true meaning of the holiday spirit. Well, I found it in Mr Morgan’s book. In this world of trying to find the perfect gifts, we learn that the perfect gifts are those within us. Beautifully written and illustrated, the book is an easy read and a wonderful way to spread the true meaning of Christmas.
Anne M. Spiller, Ohio.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045434997
Publisher:	Brian Morgan
Publication date:	11/12/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	154 KB

About the Author

Brian Morgan is a former business leader, and a national award-winning journalist, editor, publisher and author. He lives with his wife, Judy, and grandson, Thomas, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, after living most of their lifetime in Sydney.

He has always declared his family to be his first and foremost interest, and has two children (with partners) and five grandchildren.

Brian received a private school education through high school before a range of tertiary studies. He has served as a teacher at TAFE colleges, teaching writing, publishing and related subjects. He has also been a small business seminar leader, and conducted workshops for and lectured to groups like the Fellowship of Australian Writers.

Brian was the founder of a number of businesses and institutions set up for charitable, educational and business purposes. He has had several successful careers, and has now embarked on another, as co-founder and Director of the PiPS Institute (Professional Independent Publishing Standards), established in 2015.

His first career was in business, where he chalked up a number of major achievements in national and multi-national companies. For example, he worked government ministers and industry leaders to initiate reform and restructure of the credit union movement in Australia, and helped a major multi-national business restructure its operations and take over a company that was bigger than itself.

As an employee or as a consultant, he has experience in many industries, including insurance, finance and banking, manufacturing, distribution, computer industry, printing, publishing, pastoral interests, advertising and marketing, service industries and the retail sector. He has considerable experience and expertise in event organisation and management.

His particular interest, however, has been small business and he set up a number of ventures over the years for himself and others. He founded businesses in many areas, including printing, publishing, event organization, marketing and consulting.

He also founded the Australian Institute for the Self-Employed to educate and train the self-employed and small business people through his writings. He wrote a Small Business Course that was studied by many business people around Australia.

However, writing was his first love and he gave up that successful career in business to learn the writing craft through journalism. His rise was rapid. He worked as journalist, sub-editor, editor, editor-in-chief, managing editor and general manager on a range of mastheads in the Fairfax and Courier newspaper groups, winning numerous state and national awards in the process.

He also worked as CEO and publisher on one regional and five national magazines and has served as contributing editor on an Australian literary journal. Three of his five magazines were national business magazines in Australia.

His writing has been highly acclaimed and translated for Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese audiences. He wrote a paper for the Australian Press Council Prize based on his experiences in journalism.

A literary agent in Chicago, Jane Jordan Browne, managed to present only one of Brian’s projects, The Legend of the Christmas Prayer, to publishers before her sad and untimely death. The Legend became a sell-out best-seller in America and Great Britain and was translated into Japanese, where it was also successful.

Despite this success, Brian has turned away from traditional publishing in favour of independent publishing and now has a range of books available on Smashwords and in other online stores.

Brian Morgan has also served his local community and business in a range of capacities, and past affiliations include: Associate of Australian Society of Accountants; Member of Institute of Affiliate Accountants; Member Accountants’ Professional Information Panel; Member Australian Institute of Management; Founder Australian Institute for the Self-Employed; Member Media and Entertainment and Arts Alliance and House Committee Chairman; Patron and life member of community organizations.