christmas

The art of living is to rise above lesser things so that we can truly enjoy great things. And the message of Christmas is the greatest of all things.

May God grant you a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.

We__e yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain __ife_ we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work __gainst_ the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work __ith_ the whole of God__ character.

May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

The mind is like a circuit ofChristmas tree lights. When thebrain works well, all of the lightstwinkle brilliantly, and it__ adaptableenough that, often, even if one bulbgoes out, the rest will still shine on.But depending on where thedamage is, sometimes that oneblown bulb can make the wholestrand go dark.

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.

God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.

And there it is! Bravo! I knew it was only a matter of time before Byron realized he had an audience. That man is simply incapable of keeping his shirt on when there are spectators. One Christmas Eve, he stripped his shirt off right in the middle of the choir's rendition of Oh Child of Bethlehem. Coincidentally, the next song was Come Let Us Adore Him and the imbecile actually launched into some interpretive dance.

It__ been a long time since they__ been together, but as close as they were physically, they__ never been so far apart in every other way.

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects, and old loves, however fleeting, to your nooks among the steadier lights that burn around us

No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I can remember when Christmas morning would start at about half past ten with a glass of Buck's Fizz in bed. Now it begins at half past five, with a test of my fine motor skills and ability to read Korean.

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys from department stores and distribute them to children on the street, partly just so everyone can relish the images of the cops beating down Santa and snatching the toys back from crying children.

I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.

Did you know that Christmas means __hrist_ (Jesus) and __as_ (a celebration)? The story about Jesus is found in the name of that special day when we celebrate His birth!

As a children__ minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there__ a simple prayer that, whoever__ reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

The man jumped and stared at the two little girls. "What are you doing here?" he demanded. "We live here, in the caretaker's cabin," Rosetta answered. "Do you need help?" "Do I need help?" he roared. "What do you think, you little snippet?" "What's a snippet?" asked Bianca innocently.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.