From our home to your home........
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD'S RICHEST BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL.......................................................................................................
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A company, (I wish I could tell you the name of it but I can't locate the email) places a wreath on each grave in Arlington National Cemetery each Christmas.................................
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I Corinthians 13 - A Christmas Version
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family and friends, I'm just another decorator.
If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family and friends, I'm just another cook.
If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family and friends, it profits me nothing.
If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on Christ,
I have missed the point.
Love stops the cooking to hug the child. Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the spouse. Love is kind, though harried and tired. Love doesn't envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.
Love doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way. Love doesn't give only to those who are able to give in return but rejoices in giving to those who can't.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but giving the gift of love will endure.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son.
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This is our front door with a fall wreath and swag above the door....
A pot of silk mums by the door on a pedestal......
A fall flag..................
A terracotta pumpkin and a thrift store ceramic one.......
Mr. Dog on the doorstep gets a fall bow......
The window box on the master bedroom with pumpkins, mums and a garland of faux gourds and squash.....
More mums...................
The window box on the family room windows...mums, apples, fall leaves....
Birdbath pumpkins...............
Leaves on the patio.....
Swag on the carport door.....
Wreath on the backporch door......
Window box on my kitchen window....a birdhouse with other fall items such as.....
a printed garden sign........
an iron bird......
a wire bird's nest with blue eggs and gourds.....
a cast iron rabbit sprinkles.....
a garland of wooden fall leaves and silk leaves......thanks for visiting with me.....God Bless.....Betty
