May there be hope perching in your soul! May your hope have feathers so that it can be your companion during the next year. As Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”
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After Christmas
by resolutewoman on December 26, 2020 in holidays, hope, love, peace
Christmas is over. I am wearing a new sweater, and, despite all the chocolate and pie and mashed potatoes I ate, I can still squeeze into my jeans. And, despite the pandemic, there was love and hope and peace on Christmas day. May that love and hope and peace linger with all of us into […]
Christmas hope and joy
by resolutewoman on December 24, 2020 in holidays, hope, Joy
Last night, my husband Jerry and I watched an online production of “A Christmas Carol” created by the Dallas Theater Center. If there wasn’t a pandemic, we would have been watching a live performance with singing and dancing and a stage full of actors and actresses—and we would have been watching with our children. Going […]
Christmas is a state of mind
by resolutewoman on December 22, 2020 in holidays, hope, Uncategorized
Here is a quote I have always liked. “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.” I always thought the words came from Charles Dickens, but I just checked. Those words came […]
Christmas trees
by resolutewoman on December 19, 2020 in celebrations, holidays, Uncategorized
Our Christmas tree is decorated. We have a decoration that Jerry and I bought at a Christmas store in Michigan only one or two years after we married. And, Christmas balls that we bought the first year we were married. But, the best decorations are the ones that our children made throughout the years. This […]
Christmas flowers
by resolutewoman on December 17, 2020 in happiness, holidays, Uncategorized
We have a vase of red and white flowers on the kitchen table, and a lovely poinsettia in the entry hall. Flowers are lovely any time of the year, especially at Christmas and especially poinsettias. “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful. They are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul,” Luther Burbank […]
Christmas magic
by resolutewoman on December 15, 2020 in holidays, hope
Who believes in Santa Claus? Who believes in the spirit of Christmas—even during a pandemic? “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it,” Roald Dahl once said.
Christmas presents
by resolutewoman on December 12, 2020 in holidays, love
I love buying presents. This year, because of the crazy virus, I have thoroughly enjoyed buying lots of presents. But, I am reminded of something important by Mother Theresa, who said: “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” –Joy
Little things bring peace
by resolutewoman on December 10, 2020 in holidays, peace, Uncategorized
Christmas lights in my yard, Christmas cards almost ready to be mailed, a Christmas tree ready to be decorated. Christmas is many small things that bring joy, and also many big things—like hope and love—and all of them bring peace. “Little things seem like nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers that individually […]
A child at Christmas
by resolutewoman on December 8, 2020 in celebrations, children, holidays
“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time,” Laura Ingalls Wilder once said.
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