The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Christmas hope and joy

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time,” Laura Ingalls Wilder once said.

  • The lessons of Christmas

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    “I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, the present and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach,” Scrooge promised in Charles Dicken’s famous play .

  • All shall be well

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    It’s December. I made fudge, and, since I won’t be seeing my children this holiday season, I am mailing them fudge. It is December—a season of hope and love and joy—even during a pandemic. “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well,” Julian of Norwich once…