Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.
Donald E. Westlake


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


Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
- Barack Obama


It is during adversity when one can really make a big difference. But making a difference is not about being a big hero. It is simply about leaving the bathroom a little cleaner going out, than when you came in.


When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.” - Eileen Caddy


When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice
Cherokee Expression


The greatest gift you will ever receive will never be found under a Christmas tree. It is far too valuable to be stored in any other place but in the depths of your heart.
Anonymous


When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out."
---David Weatherford


You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful." We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.
Dr. Dennis Anderson


It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.
Joni Eareckson Tada


To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.
Franklin Roosevelt


‎'When God had me in mind, He had someone who was 'very good' at the heart of His design programme'
Nigel DiCastiglione


The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.
Charles Swindoll


Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him, and the driver kindly offered to help him on his journey. He joyfully accepted the offer, but when seated, continued to bend beneath his burden, which he still kept on his shoulders. "Why do you not lay down your burden?" asked the kind-hearted driver. "Oh!" replied the man, "I f...eel that it is almost too much to ask you to carry me, and I could not think of letting you carry my burden too." And so Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.
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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin


Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.


God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.
Matthew Henry


‎"A smart person knows all the rules so he can break them wisely."
---Lubna Azmi


Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters.
Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome.
Terrify and terrific.
Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
- Alan Cohen

One to remember!!


Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine


‎"Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain." Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884), poet

"When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful." Barbara Bloom


‎"There are two different kinds of people in this world: those who finish what they start, and"
---Brad Ramsey


There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
- Robert Fripp


‎'I cannot afford to have a thought in my head about me that is not in His'
(I think that is a Bill Johnson quote)


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller


Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin


A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
–William Shedd


What did the Zen Buddhist Monk say to the Hotdog Vendor?......
Make me One with everything.