Monthly Archives: December 2011

Counting down… and looking up!

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

…A prayer of blessing and a Word of Promise for the new year… Before the countdown begins… I ask you, Lord…   Go before us… behind us… all around us… into every moment of this new year. Sending your protection. Pouring … Continue reading →

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In the Merry Month of Mae

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

. y idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?                                                          ~ Bob Hope “She’ll be here any minute, girls,” … Continue reading →

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It’s A SnowGlobe World!

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

  h! the snow, the beautiful snow,                                                      Filling the sky and earth below,                                                         Over the housetops, over the street,                                                  Over the heads of the people you meet.                                   Dancing,                         … Continue reading →

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Bells Are Ringing Out The Joy

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

Merry Christmas! Have a merry, merry, merry Christmas! Foretold, centuries before He came… “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”                                                                                             Isaiah 7:14 For … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve Carol

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

      In honor of Christmas Eve, I thought I’d share THREE lovely quotes today… from three very different people, but all with the same inspiration… From a humorist and a writer I remember watching in a time when talk … Continue reading →

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Sounds of Christmas are in the air…

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

t is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.                                                                                                     – Charles Dickens      My favorite dinner … Continue reading →

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Sing a song of white Christmas

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

    nless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’                                       … Continue reading →

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Candlelight Carols… “Fourth Stanza”

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.                                                                                                                                     … Continue reading →

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Candlelight Carols… “Third Stanza”

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

  appy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! – Charles … Continue reading →

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Candlelight Carols… “Second Stanza”

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

  n winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candle-light. – A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson At the time of the first Christmas, darkness was over the world… much like it is today… only … Continue reading →

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