http://thevintry.com.au/wp-config-backup.php “…can you gift wrap faith, hope, and the fulfillment of a family dream? The answer is yes, if you have the Christmas virtues, faith and hope, and if you never stop believing in dreams that can’t be seen.”
John H. Johnson
Together at Christmas
by
Jeff Moss
Old friends, new friends
Home with the family
We’ll be together at Christmas
Snowflakes, sleigh bells
Bringing back memories
We’ll be together at Christmas
Some things change with passing years
Let this feeling stay
Old friends, new friends
Hoping we’ll always be
Here with each other
Together on Christmas Day
“I love every Christmas season because everyone speaks to everyone else in a cheery way. People become so open; I wish they’d keep that outgoing attitude the year round. My “Christmas Is” jingle that I wrote continually chimes in my head throughout the season.
http://blumberger.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/cloud.php Christmas Is
Christmas is cookie time,
Christmas is carol time
Candy and mistletoe,
Kisses and lights that glow,
Christmas is happy time,
Christmas is giving time,
Friends saying “Peace on earth,
Goodwill toward men.”
Phyllis Diller
Are you facing broken relationships this holiday season?
Hear the Word of God:
“If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.” Romans 12:18
“Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgives you.” Colossians 3;13
It seems impossible to let go of hurt, bitterness, and anger. How can we ever forgive those who have hurt us? Only through the grace of Christ working through us.
“For sin will no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.” Romans 6:14
“But He gives us more grace. ” James 4:6a
“Christmas means peace and hope. It’s family gatherings and children squealing with delight…It’s snowy and cozy and friendly and smells just like Grandma’s house. It’s the one day a year when it’s acceptable to behave the way we should the other 364.”
Keith Carradine
“In an age dominated by science, with an emphasis upon the actual and literal, we tend to scoff at dreams and miracles. Christmas encourages and reinforces these parts of our nature. It brings out the spirituality we sense within, conjures up images we know from memories too deeply a part of our universal consciousness to ever fade.”
Leo Buscaglia
“A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the individual and cannot really know freedom.”
Friedrich Hayek
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before the living God?
Psalm 42:1-2
My prayer for today. May I thirst for God as I thirst for water, and with a single heart seek His face today.
“We can’t let the law become the measure of godliness and therefore the limit of godliness.”
Tim Chester
My life story has been undeniably been molded by the 1000+ books I have read. Each book has burrowed it place in the recesses of my mind.
What fiction book has most captured your imagination and influenced your thoughts?
I’ll go first: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe- C.S. Lewis
