The Resolute Woman

Category: holidays

  • It’s December!

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    Everyone came to our house Saturday night for a birthday party. Then, on Sunday, I helped a friend with her open house. Last night, my husband and I went to the symphony. This afternoon, my friend Olga is coming from Austin, and tonight Olga and I are going to our book club’s annual Christmas party.…

  • Chaos and love

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    “Our family—the perfect blend of chaos and love.” After Thanksgiving, our house seemed too quiet when Mary Elizabeth left for Denton and Jay left for Tulsa. Yes, our family has plenty of love and sometimes an ample amount of chaos, too. Sometimes I am not sure if ours is the perfect blend! I found the…

  • Peace and quiet moments

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    In the busy month between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we’re going to seek peace and quiet moments when we can remember the meaning of the season. And, when the day seems too hectic, we’re going to remember to stop for a few minutes and look for a place where we can be quiet and peaceful.

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

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    One of my neighbors once told me: “Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday! All you have to do is eat.” And, cook, of course, although I think this neighbor had a mother who was doing the cooking. However, before I eat too much pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes with gravy—my favorites, I am going to pause…

  • Hopes and dreams

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    It’s November already, and my husband Jerry and I already are making plans for 2017. Big plans. We’re going to update our house. Re-do the kitchen and bathrooms. Buy new carpet. Maybe even hardwood floors. Of course, we still have two months of 2016 left. But, are you already thinking about the new year? “Hope…

  • A resolution to have fun

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    We asked the preschool children in our Sunday School class if they had made any “goals” for the new year. The first three to raise their hands announced these resolutions: To ride a pony. To carve pumpkins. To play more video games. I was amused at first. Not a single child made a resolution to…

  • Take a break

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    Did you eat too much? Did you say something that you wished you hadn’t said? Did the holiday fall short of your expectations of perfection? Are you tired? Give yourself a present: Take a break. Go for a walk. Call a friend. Take a nap. You’ll feel much better.

  • Merry Christmas!

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    May your heart and your home be filled with love and peace, joy and hope.

  • Don’t vote for Hillary

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    My husband Jerry and I invited our neighbor Lauren, who is in the fourth grade, to go on a holiday carriage ride with us. We heard the clop, clop of the big horses and saw splendid Christmas light displays, and we thoroughly enjoyed Lauren’s company. She told us the name of her best friend and…

  • Awe, pleasure and wonder

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    “Gratitude is rooted in the sense that life is a gift,” writes Rabbi Harold Kushner. In his book The Lord Is My Shepherd, Rabbi quotes Abraham Maslow: “Psychologist Abraham Maslow has praised as a character trait of the fully mature adult ‘the ability to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of…