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"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most." ~ Ruth Carter Stapleton Merry Christmas friends! It is here! It is here! I hope you all have an amazingly joyful and happy Christmas that is filled with so much magic and love! I am [...]
"Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." ~ Amy Grant Happy Thanksgiving Framily! What a year it has been and what a crazy way for it to end! Life is crazy and unpredictable and sometimes it can just bleeping suck. But on the other side it [...]
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." ~ Albert Schweitzer Last Day of June It figures I would be getting around to finally posting this on the [...]
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley Practicing Gratitude I know, I know, I am officially a broken record when it comes to gratitude. But I am a broken record because it is something that [...]
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." ~ Marcus Aurelius Early Mornings Good morning! Technically it is now late afternoon, but why quibble over a technicality? Besides depending on where you are in the world, it [...]
"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." ~ W. Clement Stone Back With Family Despite Thanksgiving being a family holiday, since I was a teenager, I can count on one hand the times I havespent it with my immediate family. It always seemed I was traveling. Or the insanity to travel [...]
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." ~ Albert Schweitzer I am not sure I can put into adequate enough words to express how grateful I am [...]
"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling." ~ Edna Ferber I am long over due for another Friday Favorites. With the Holiday season in full swing, there are a LOT of favorite things! 'Tis the season! While I usually try to keep it to five, I in good conscious just could NOT do that this [...]
"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." ~ William Arthur Ward Thanksgiving Every year on the third Thursday of November, those of us here in the states give thanks. It is filled with the Mayflower and cornucopias, stuffing our faces with turkey and mashed [...]
"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 "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is [...]