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Christmas with family is good on whatever day your family can all get together at one time. This year for us it was yesterday. That’s a little earlier than usual. We generally try to make it work a day or so before or after Christmas. That couldn’t happen this year. So, I had to get busy with my shopping and …
“Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.” – Ruth Ann Schabacker. December is here. That means Christmas is right around the corner with all the traditional activities. There’s the reason for the season – the birth of the Savior. Shepherds in the field watching their flocks. Angels singing on a starry night. A baby born in a stable …
The same as many of you I’ve been blessed to celebrate many Christmas days. Also the same as you, I have great memories of those times. We always gathered to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family on Christmas Eve with my mother and my sisters and their families. Actually that tradition started when I was a child and …
At Christmas we’re all winners when we think about what happened in a little Bethlehem stable over 2000 years ago. We celebrate that in so many different ways and I’ve had a great time reading about which Christmas traditions are favorites of yours. One thing often mentioned by those of you who entered my Christmas giveaway was Candlelight services. Many …
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. ~Thomas S. Monson Have you ever made homemade gifts for the people on your Christmas list? Sometimes that happens because we …
I believe that every life is a collection of individual ‘journey stories.’ ~Dieter F. Uchtdorf Do you feel like you are on a journey as you look ahead or have been on a journey when you look behind? I can agree with Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s quote about life being a series of “journey stories.” When I think back on my life, …
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly;sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ~Ernest Hemingway I’m writing a new book. The beginning hasn’t been easy. The necessary time for working has been hard to squeeze out of my schedule. That’s always true during the holiday season. There are always so many …
“Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.” – Ruth Ann Schabacker. December is almost here. That means Christmas is right around the corner with all the traditional activities. There’s the reason for the season – the birth of the Savior. That’s good to keep in the center of our thoughts. Shepherds in the field watching their flocks. …
Man, is it cold outside tonight in Kentucky!! We don’t have snow like so many of you do west and north of us, but we’ve got some wind chills. Back when I was a kid, you looked at the thermometer and said it was such and such degree. If the wind was blowing you knew that made it colder, but …