All things beautiful: CHRISTMAS IS A TIME FOR SHARING

terça-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2020

CHRISTMAS IS A TIME FOR SHARING

Christmas is a Time - for Sharing
by Barbara Laughlin

Old stories passed down through the years

"what grandpa did one Christmas eve"

Had you laughing through your tears

Christmas is a time - for caring

About your family, neighbours and friends

Lending a hand to others in need

before the season ends

Christmas is a time - for giving

Presents that came from your heart

Watching the children, hearing their laughter

As the packages are torn apart

Christmas is a time - for peace

When soldiers lay aside their guns

And raise a glass to peace and good will

To every father and every son

Christmas is a time - for remembering

Family not with us on Christmas morn

And why people everywhere celebrate

The night our saviour was born

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Here's a dozen of my favorite things never to apologize for:

1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
2) Never apologize for being passionate.
3) Never apologize for being smart.
4) Never apologize for demanding respect.
5) Never apologize for saying no.
6) Never apologize for not embracing someone else's agenda.
7) Never apologize for disagreeing.
8) Never apologize for your faith.
9) Never apologize for your own sense of creativity.
10) Never apologize for ordering dessert.
11) Never apologize for being funny.
12) Never apologize for living your truth.

Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that exudes from us. Others watch us--and their thinking and actions are modified by our influence."

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity." Ephesians 5:15-16

~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"