Category: hope
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After Christmas
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…
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Christmas hope and 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…
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Christmas is a state of mind
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…
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Christmas magic
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.
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Hope is light
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness,” Desmond Tutu once said.
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Deep peace of hope and love
Peace of the running waves to you. Deep peace of the flowing air to you. Deep peace of the quiet earth to you. Deep peace of the shining stars to you. Deep peace of the shades of night to you. Moon and stars always giving light to you. Deep peace of hope and love to…
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A ripple of hope
“Each time a man a (or a woman or a child) stands up for an ideal—or acts to improve the lot of others—or strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends forth a tiny ripple of hope—and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which…
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Hope and confidence
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement,” Helen Keller once said. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”