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# And so, this Christmas season
may our hearts with gladness glow,
As we read the blessed story
That took place so long ago.--Alpha L. Buntain ("The First Christmas") New! as of 11/28/05
# Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ...
to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest
ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you
can never keep it alone.--Henry van Dyke ("Keeping Christmas" in The Spirit of Christmas) New! as of 11/28/05
# "At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than
usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present
time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices."--Charles
Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
# Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail
over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.--George
F. McDougall
# The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.--Burton
Hillis (Better Homes and Gardens)
# Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.--Hamilton Wright Mabie
# "But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving,
charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent
to open their shut-up hearts freely."--Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
# A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While quite unselfish, it grows small.--Eva K. Logue
Past Quotes:
Here lies a poor woman who always was tired, for she lived in a place where help wasn't hired. Her last words on earth were,
Dear friends I am going where washing ain't done nor sweeping nor sewing, and everything there is exact to my wishes, for
there they don't eat and there's no washing of dishes.... Don't mourn for me never, for I'm going to do nothing forever and
ever.
Anonymous epitaph in churchyard, pre-1860
There are times when parenthood seems like nothing but feeding the mouths that bite you.
Peter DeVries
God calls each of us to something special at each stage of our life. We need to accept His promptings and not be afraid.
God gives us the grace we need so that His dream for us becomes a reality. Submitted by Ronda C. in Salmon Idaho
Most people worry about what they eat between Christmas and New Years when they should be worrying about what they eat between
New Years and Christmas! Posted in Detroit Lakes Curves
Letting go is the hardest thing you can do as a parent. You have to settle with the past, engage in the present and believe
in the future..
Life is a voyage that is homeward bound...
If I screw up my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much...said by Steve Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. Unknown.
Only floss the teeth you want to keep. Dr. Oz on Oprah
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having human experiences", and
"The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race". Quoted by Susan StJames on Oprah
There is no one way to be a perfect parent, but, there are a million ways to be a good parent. Quoted from Cheaper by
the Dozen 2
"Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to.
From Galations 6:9, "Do not grow weary in doing good, for in due time you will reap a harvest if you do not lose
heart." Submitted by Jenn B.
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Tough times never last, but tough people do!
Live Juicy
Living Juicy Means:
Rolling down a bright grassy hill. Sleeping all day to stay in a dream. Definitely taking your shoes off at the beach.
Buying flowers that make you gasp. Find those places inside that jump for joy and do things that bring out your best most
magic self. ---SARK---
Are you a Succulent Wild Woman? Haven't heard of SARK? Click here....
No (woman) was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within. Ameliea E. Barr
...living your truth is not easy ..."At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of
the work you've left unfinished," Golda Meir, the only woman prime minister of Isreal. "Such a struggle is unleashed
within yourself. Your heart is rent."
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God's Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation
soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and
returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -- porcelain, plastic, glass crystal, some plain looking, some
expensive, some exquisite -- telling them to help themselves to the coffee.When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand,
the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and
cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even
hides what we drink."What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups...
And then you began eyeing each other's cups."Now consider this: Life is the coffee; our jobs, money and position in society
are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change, the quality
of life we live."Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!"The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything."
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