That tense sense of crisis which still tingles in the Christmas story and even in every Christ mas celebration accentuates the idea of a search and discovery. Warmheartedness Warmheartedness embraces a multitude of vir tues. We do not expect young people to exhibit warmheartedness. It is a virtue for those who are seasoned in virtue. Warmheartedness is the soft glow of love, winning over people's trust and rendering them comfortable in an intimate, often domestic, environment.
Life is a drama, ambiguous and uncertain.
The entire thrust of Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol , is to warm up the frosty heart of Ebenezer Scrooge. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell is an icy lake. Scrooge was headed in that direction until his heart started to heat up. And when it did, it burst into a paroxysm of love and generosity.