New Beginnings New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way. (Oscar Auliq Ice, author) It’s only the third day of the New Year, and you are about to return home from vacation, or to go back to school or...
Big Plans There is nothing like a dream to create the future. (Victor Hugo, 19th century French novelist) You’ve been waiting for this New Year to pursue some of your most significant dreams. What have you planned to do that you will now begin working toward? Plan...
Happy New Year! Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, “It will be happier.” (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 19th century British poet laureate) We’ve been waiting for 2020, and now, here it is. As Tennyson wrote, many of us are glad that 2019 is over,...
New Year’s Eve Someone asked me when is my birthday? The poet inside me replied, "My birthday is on the last day of the year, It's 31st December my dear!” (Anamika Mishra, author from India) That’s an interesting way to look at New Year’s Eve. Every year is the...
Looking Back What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. (Zig Ziglar, late motivational speaker) We’re approaching the end of the year, and some of us are beginning to think of our resolutions for the New Year....
Friendship A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American essayist) How many “friends” do you have on Social Media? Are they really friends? Would you feel free to share your most intimate...
Priceless Gifts Life, love, and laughter—what priceless gifts to give our children. (Phyllis Campbell) The gifts we gave our kids a few days ago may be broken or forgotten by now, but as Campbell points out there are those “priceless gifts” that we can continue to...
Christmas Joy Dear God, Though Christmas Day passed, the reason we celebrate Christmas continues every day. (Source unknown) The prayer continues: “Your gift of love, grace, and mercy to us is never ending. Thank you that we count on that every day of our lives.” We...
The Day After Three phrases that sum up Christmas: Peace on Earth, Good will to Men, and Batteries Not Included. (English proverb, from a Norman Rockwell calendar) We may laugh at it, but if you don’t have the right batteries on Christmas morning, there may be a lot...
Christmas I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet / The word repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men! (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) In many parts of the western world, steeple bells will ring today. Though we are...
Christmas Eve Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness . . . (George F. McDougall, 19th century seaman in the Royal Navy) McDougall continues, “. . . a time when our...
Christmas Eve Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. (George W. Truett, late Baptist pastor) Truett continues, “He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.” The Bible says...