122223 Christmas quotes plus...

May our Christmas Cheer

last all through the year.

- Anonymous

 

Christmas is doing a little

something extra for someone.

- Charles M. Schulz

 

This Christmas let us all

measure the present,

by the love within our

hearts that is present.

- Edward Ebbs

 

It’s not how much we give,

but how much love we

put into giving.

- Mother Theresa

 

Christmas, my child,

is love in action.

Every time we love,

every time we give,

it’s Christmas.

- Dale Evans Rogers

 

Christmas is most truly

Christmas when we celebrate

it by giving the light of love

to those who need it most.

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

 

The Christmas spirit

is a spirit of giving

and forgiving.

- J. C. Penney

 

Bless us Lord,

this Christmas,

with quietness of mind.

- Helen Steiner Rice

 

Christmas is a tonic for our souls.

It moves us to think of others

rather than of ourselves.

- B. C. Forbes

 

Christmas is not a time nor a season,

but a state of mind.

To cherish peace and goodwill,

to be plenteous in mercy,

is to have the real spirit of Christmas

- Calvin Coolidge

 

Christmas will always be

as long as we stand heart

to heart and hand in hand.

- Dr. Seuss

 

 

Christmas in my hometown

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPNgUtIsHU

 

I’ll be home for Christmas

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtGt4Ypwj5s

 

122023 The Children's Christmas...

The Children's Christmas…

 

The children's Christmas is simple and bright
They sing the music, they laugh in the light,
Sparkling colors are a magical spell,
Their instant joy flows bubbling and well.

But round that tree I see a space,
Beside the table an empty place,
A voice is missing, a form of grace,
The sweetness of a little lost face.

A vacuum was left by the child who's gone;
Though all seems right, yet it's terribly wrong.
I'd give up my Christmas, and gaiety fine,
To clasp that small hand again in mine.

 

- Rosemary J. Gwaltney

 

 

In loving memory of our grand-son.

Colson Lee Clark

May 28th, 2020 

 

 

 

Christmas Time…

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amk7AiEI43I

 

 

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Happiness is inward,

And not outward;

And so,

It does not depend on

What we have,

But on what we are.

- Henry Van Dyke

 

Love and peace of mind

Do protect us.

They allow us to overcome

The problems that life

Hands us.

They teach us to survive…

To live now…

To have the courage to

Confront each day.

- Bernie Siegel

 

Time is too slow for

Those who wait,

Too swift for

Those who fear,

Too long for

Those who grieve,

Too short for those

Who rejoice,

But for those

Who love,

Time is eternity.

- Henry Van Dyke

 

 

 

 

 

121623 Christmas quotes plus...

Christmas is most truly Christmas

when we celebrate it by giving the

light of love to those who need it

most.

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

 

Christmas is not as much about

opening our presents as opening

our hearts.

- Janice Maeditere

Heap on the wood! the wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,

We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

- Walter Scott, Sr.

Happy, happy Christmas,

that can win us back to the delusions

of our childish days;

that can recall to the old man the

pleasures of his youth;

that can transport the sailor and the traveler,

thousands of miles away,

back to his own fireside and his quiet home!

- Charles Dickens

 

Christmas will always be

as long as we stand heart

to heart and hand in hand.

- Dr. Seuss

 

Unless we make Christmas

an occasion to share our blessings,

all the snow in Alaska won't make

it 'white.'"

- Bing Crosby

 

 

Old Time Christmas…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE8Zc21j1-A

 

The Magic of Christmas Day…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5wyun2AZQ8

 

 

120923 quotes

Life is like a mirror.

Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

I just put a big smile on my face and

everyone smiles back.

- Peace Pilgrim

 

We have an impact on our children

by what we say,

but particularly by what we do.

They forget many of the things we say,

but they observe everything we do.

We can’t expect to keep beer in the

refrigerator and expect our

fifteen-year-old not to drink beer.

- S Truett Cathy

 

Go down swinging.

And I’ll tell you…

If you fight with all you have,

more often than not,

you won’t go down at all.

You will win.

- Jocko Willink

 

 

Sure Could Use Some Christmas Around Here

The Alabama Band

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESwxAMR_7ww&list=OLAK5uy_meJGYzuQQs4U-1NE9weODjLCZDoqujgrU&index=14

 

 

Kentucky Bluebird

Keith Whitley

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDx32QijJi0

 

 

120823 The Value of a Smile plus...

“A glad heart is good medicine,

but a broken spirit dries up the bones.”

Proverbs 17:22

 

The Value of a Smile…

 

One little knows the value of a smile,

Or the exceeding greatness of some laughter,

Until he is without them for a while,

Then the joy is greater felt thereafter.

- James E. Gibbons

 

Faces…

Some faces that we see are long,

Then not a few are round;

Some faces may convey a song,

While others only a frown.

 

Some faces are freckle covered,

Some have a bushy top;

Some faces are in make-up smothered,

And thus, would stop a clock.

 

Some faces harbor staring eyes,

Then some support a nose;

Some faces register their surprise,

Show smiling teeth in rows.

 

Some faces look like their mother’s,

While others say it’s dad;

Some faces have ugly brothers,

Then some are not so bad.

 

Some faces bear the mark of pain,

Others the guilt of sin;

But with all faces it’s the same;

We must be born again.

- Jame E. Gibbons

 

“There was a man named Nicodemus.

He was a proud religious law-keeper and a leader of the Jews.

He came to Jesus at night and said,

“Teacher, we know You have come from God to teach us.

No one can do these powerful works You do unless God is with Him.

Jesus said to him,

 “For sure, I tell you, unless a man is born again,

he cannot see the holy nation of God.”

Nicodemus said to Him,

 “How can a man be born when he is old?

How can he get into his mother’s body and be born the second time?”

Jesus answered,

“For sure, I tell you, unless a man is born of water and of the

Spirit of God, he cannot get into the holy nation of God. “

John 3:1-5

 

Face to Face…

Face to face with Christ my Savior,

Fact to face… what will it be,

When we rapture, I behold Him,

Jesus Christ who died for me?

 

Only faintly now I see Him,

With the darkling veil between;

But a blessed day is coming,

When His glory shall  be seen.

 

What rejoicing in His presence,

When are banished grief and pain,

When the crooked ways are straightened,

And the dark things shall be plain!

 

Face to face! O blissful moment!

Fact to face… to see and know;

Face to face with my Redeemer,

Jesus Christ, who loves me so.

 

Chorus:

 

Face to face shall I behold Him,

Far beyond the starry sky;

Face to face, in all His glory,

I shall see Him by and by.

- Mrs. Frank A. Breck

 

Let it be Christmas…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwJ4SwxEvb8

 

In Honor of our three grand-children

 

Colson Lee Clark in Heaven in the arms of Jesus

 

Caragan Grace Clark

 

Claire Rose Clark