a few Christmas quotes...

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.  ~Carol Nelson

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.  ~Burton Hillis

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.  ~W.J. Cameron

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.  In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.  ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.  ~Richard Lamm

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.  ~Author Unknown

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special!  How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights.  Happy Christmas to all.  ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  ~Author Unknown

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.  ~Author Unknown

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.  ~John Andrew Holmes

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.  ~Robert Kirby

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.  ~Bernard Manning

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.  ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.  ~Johnny Carson

Christmas gift suggestions:  To your enemy, forgiveness.  To an opponent, tolerance.  To a friend, your heart.  To a customer, service.  To all, charity.  To every child, a good example.  To yourself, respect.  ~Oren Arnold

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on Mother's Day...

My first Mother's Day... I really wasn't sure I should participate, but everybody kept urging me to.

At church, the men organized a beautiful program in honor of the women - including children's vocal and bell choirs, and testimonies. Halfway through the service every grown man in the room got up and left. 20 minutes later, they all filed in to surround the entire sanctuary while singing Amazing Grace and He Touched Me.

They said that they wanted to present themselves as a boundary wall symbolizing their protection of the women and children from the outside world. Even the single women were in tears as so many deep, rich voices joined together in this circle of song.

Next, they hosted a communion service in honor of the Mothers. The men and children washed the feet of their mothers, as Jesus had done for the disciples, and then served the symbols of communion to the women. It was beautiful!

The rest of the weekend I was so tired from all the excitement that I just wanted to sleep. But it was all worth it.

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