Christmas

It’s official! Christmas is one week away! Are you ready? Well, regardless of the gifts that you think you don’t have yet, you are ready to show love. If your money is funny this Christmas, consider the beautifully homemade gifts. I have a few tips below: 1. Since you have pulled out the cameras since [...]

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Believe . . .

FAITH (heart condition)

If I could sprinkle fairy dust on some people and extend the spirit of innocence that is supposed to be a part of childhood, I would. Because some of us have it snatched away too early, seduced from us too soon, and some down right give it away with open arms, not truly realizing what [...]

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I’m Too Cool for Christmas Music

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

Have you ever noticed how ‘cool’ the average teenager tries to be? The code of conduct that they ascribe to and the litany of things that they automatically don’t like just because . . . Is Christmas music on your child’s (niece’s, nephew’s, neighbor’s son, young cousin’s) list as corny? Play it anyway. Let these [...]

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Family Missing In Action . . .

FAITH (heart condition)

When the holidays come, it has a tendency to magnify the hole that may already be in your soul. Nothing is wrong with you. Life is happening and your heart is aching regardless of the season. But don’t let it overtake you. Do something now. Consider being with your family and just sitting still together [...]

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Don’t Let the Overwhelm Get To You

FOCUS (mind control)

With all the work to be done it’s easy to drown in the doing and never enjoy the season. By now, you already know what I’m about to say: ‘STOP for a second, slow everything down for one moment, take 30 minutes and spend on you.’ Go to a near by lake, and just decompress [...]

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Let’s Make a Memory

FUNNY & FREE

I have just attended my second of at least five parties for the year, and as I only slightly irritated everybody with my camera-and-camcorder-in-your-face-for-the-best-shot-and-the-sake-of-the-season-so-act-right antics, it occured to me that you guys should do the same: Make a Memory. Pull out that camcorder that no one has been using or pick up an instamatic camera [...]

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Help is on the way . . .

FAITH (heart condition)

With everything that is happening in the world, 1. it is a perfect time to think of others, and 2. a reason to do things to make the air around you special, People need company from a sincere and empathetic friend, but sometimes, they also just need a break from the drama. Some families are [...]

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Reclaiming Your Christmas, dealing with death during the holidays

FULFILLMENT (lifestyle design)

First of all you are not alone. Many of us have lost loved ones during the holiday season. And sometimes it just doesn’t matter when you lost them, you miss them at Christmas. It’s ok to feel your loss as long as you don’t allow it to take you under. So how do we celebrate [...]

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You have to work at it . . .

FOOTSTEPS (act on it)

My dad says that “you have to work at it.” He was talking about Christmas and how children make our reactions to the Holidays very natural, you simply go all out because there are children around. But once people grow up and move on, we have a tendency to move away from completely letting loose [...]