Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
"Twas nearly a month..."
before
Christmas and all through our house, the "halls" are all "decked" both inside and out!
Christmas and all through our house, the "halls" are all "decked" both inside and out!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
In search of....
"Merry Christmas" lights!
Mike and I are relatively normal people...but when it comes to Christmas lights, we are anything but !
Believe it or not we've been out two nights in search of Christmas lights...ALREADY!
And guess what! We found some! Both nights!
Four homes in our neighborhood are pretty much decorated including ours but we're the only one lit up tonight. We finish ours tomorrow after I find some fresh wreaths to hang and do the bannisters on the porches and the garlands over the doors.
It has been so nice to be able to just sit near the tree, listening to Christmas music and get caught up in the "magic" of it all. Actually it's more like a holiness that engulfs me and I just sit and meditate on the goodness of God and His gift of Jesus to us! Such peace surrounds me and I get that "warm fuzzy' feeling that only He can give. Ahhhh....selah....
So...our "Christmas light adventurings" have begun! It's the "most wonderful time of the year"!
Mike and I are relatively normal people...but when it comes to Christmas lights, we are anything but !
Believe it or not we've been out two nights in search of Christmas lights...ALREADY!
And guess what! We found some! Both nights!
Four homes in our neighborhood are pretty much decorated including ours but we're the only one lit up tonight. We finish ours tomorrow after I find some fresh wreaths to hang and do the bannisters on the porches and the garlands over the doors.
It has been so nice to be able to just sit near the tree, listening to Christmas music and get caught up in the "magic" of it all. Actually it's more like a holiness that engulfs me and I just sit and meditate on the goodness of God and His gift of Jesus to us! Such peace surrounds me and I get that "warm fuzzy' feeling that only He can give. Ahhhh....selah....
So...our "Christmas light adventurings" have begun! It's the "most wonderful time of the year"!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
"Thanksgiving Proclamation"
"The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with blessings and fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God...
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined in our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us...
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, Who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father Who dwelleth in the Heavens."
Abraham Lincoln 1863
"BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD!"
Psalm 33:12
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined in our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us...
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, Who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father Who dwelleth in the Heavens."
Abraham Lincoln 1863
"BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD!"
Psalm 33:12
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
"Grateful Praise!"
"For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies; Lord of all to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise!
For Thyself, best Gift Divine! To our race so freely given; for that great, great love of Thine,
peace on earth and joy in heaven:
Lord of all to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise!"
Folliott Pierpoint, 1835-1917
Monday, November 22, 2010
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