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di
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| Posted 12/10/2002 8:08 AM (GMT -6) |   | If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shining balls, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another decorator.
If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another cook.
If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it profits me nothing.
If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crystal snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.
Love stops the cooking to hug the child.
Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband.
Love is kind, though harried and tired.
Love doesn't envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.
Love doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way.
Love doesn't give only to those who are able to give in return, but rejoices in giving to those who can't.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust.
But giving the gift of love will endure.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, With Love!
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trosie
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| Posted 12/10/2002 5:24 PM (GMT -6) | | Thank you, Di! It's so easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of this busy time of year...
Here's an email I received that touches on the "Good Samaritan" story. It's a lesson in how to be Jesus with skin on. It's an eye witness account from New York City on a cold day in December:
A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?"
"I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply.
The lady took him by the hand and went into the store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with a towel. By this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?"
As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered the question with these words: "Are you God's Wife?"
Giving the gift of love will indeed endure! All else will pass with time but the memories and love will remain forever in the heart of those we touch.
Love,
trosie
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Springs
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| Posted 12/10/2002 5:57 PM (GMT -6) | | Thanks for the love Di! I was just talking about this with a friend of mine today. I used to do so many things for in preparation for Christmas, that some years I ended up working right through Christmas Eve. My heartfelt prayer of thanks for the season went something like this...It's over!! Thank you Jesus!
I'm with you. If we don't worship God and love others at Christmas we should give it up.
-S
"It is a dangerous business to arrive in eternity with possibilities which one himself has prevented from becoming actualities. Possibility is a hint from God." -Soren Kiekegaard | | Back to Top | | |
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