Christmas is my favorite time of year. I was a Christmas baby (December 8) and my Papa was born on Christmas day, so I guess it should be my favorite. Besides these reasons, we celebrate the birth of our Hope at Christmas. Christmas is all about true love!

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this." --Isaiah 9:6-7

Thank you, Jesus for coming to live among us!

Welcome To Our World
Words & Music by: Chris Rice

Tears are falling, hearts are breaking
How we need to hear from God
You've been promised, we've been waiting
Welcome Holy Child
Welcome Holy Child

Hope that you don't mind our manger
How I wish we would have known
But long-awaited Holy Stranger
Make yourself at home
Please make yourself at home

Bring your peace into our violence
Bid our hungry souls be filled
Word now breaking Heaven's silence
Welcome to our world
Welcome to our world

Fragile finger sent to heal us
Tender brow prepared for thorn
Tiny heart whose blood will save us
Unto us is born
Unto us is born

So wrap our injured flesh around you
Breathe our air and walk our sod
Rob our sin and make us holy
Perfect Son of God
Perfect Son of God

Hope's Christmas Book Picks
Books to make your season brighter!
These books are not directly about
love, but if you use the advice inside, your holidays can help you focus on the true meaning of Christmas--which is love!
(Just click below to order from my Amazon Bookstore)
Unplug the Christmas Machine:
A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Joy Back into the Season

by Jo Robinson
Nine years and 13 printings since its debut, Unplug the Christmas Machine is still the undisputed guide to creating a joyful, stress-free holiday season. Revised and filled with new material, this book "... offers a wealth of suggestions for combatting commercialism and filling the holidays with simple, spiritual celebrations...."--The New York Times Book Review.

Debt Proof Your Holidays

by Mary Hunt
Hunt takes the reader through a step-by-step plan for a debt-free holiday season. By examining personal values and attitudes, she enables us to identify what we really want from the holidays. In her own words, she wants to help us celebrate "Christmas by choice, not by chance."

Christmas memories just fill your senses. I was shopping with my mom the other day and she asked me to smell a candle. It was Bayberry and she said it smelled like Christmas to her. I found the Cinnamon candle and told her that IT smelled like OUR Christmases. Isn't it funny how much the sense of smell can stir images in our minds?

Russian Tea
snowman

1 c. instant tea (plain w/o sugar)
2 c. sugar
3 c. Tang
2 small boxes Orange-Pineapple Jell-O
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. ground cloves

Mix all ingredients well.  Add 2 T. to a mug of boiling water.

The Christmas Baby

The year that I was born, it was one of the coldest Christmases in many years. Our water pipes froze and burst. We had to go stay at my grandmother's house until it was fixed.

Grandmother made me a Christmas patchwork quilt. Mommie brought me home from the hospital wrapped in it. I still have it and we put it out at Christmas. Mommie made a Santa hat for me. She took lots of pictures of me in it!

gingerbreadI got a stuffed gingerbread doll that was as tall as me. Mom got a Christmas centerpiece with a rocking horse from Grandmother. She started collecting rocking horse ornaments for me as a result of that. I probably have about 20 rocking horses we have collected. (I also have several doll and angel ornaments.)

I don't remember that year, but I know I got lots of stuff because I was a spoiled child! I got some books and a doll bed (from my Granny Layne) and a huge Raggedy Ann doll. I was 17 days old that Christmas and Mommie said it was her best year ever having me as new gift.

cute!
Spoiled Little Poor Girl

My parents are no longer together, so every year, I get more than my share of presents, having two Christmases. And when I was a little girl I was spoiled to death (some say I still am.) Well, being the first grandchild on one side, and the only grandchild on the other side, it was a given fact that I was to be spoiled!

One year, we went up to my uncle's house after Christmas. (Now keep in mind that I had already gotten my stuff from my parents and grandparents.) Everybody in the family was there -- parents, their parents, and me, the only grandchild. But you have to know that I was only 3 (the dreaded age).

So we all get there and eat and it's time for presents!! They would read the names and hand the gifts to me to give out. I guess that had fun watching me do whatever they said--like a power trip or something? After all of the stuff was handed out we opened them in age order. Youngest one goes first, meaning me!!! I had been so busy handing out stuff that I hadn't seen how much stuff piled up for me! How many?

ONE!!!!! "ONE!" I cried, while holding my pitiful little finger up and going from person to person to plead my case. I cried that they didn't love me anymore and things like that cause I only got one!

No one would sympathize with me, as most of them giggled or roared out loud at my theatrics. Never mind that the "one!" gift was a very nice set of Fisher-Price walkie-talkies that I had ASKED for! My aunt who had given them to me (and was rather new to the family) was not sure whether to laugh at me--or cry at my disappointment, so she kind of did a little of both!

To this day, they still tease me about being the spoiled little poor girl!!

AnGeLs - God's Messengers
What do you believe about them?

HARK! The Herald Angels Sing!
Angels, from the Realm of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
Clown the Angel

There are 208 references to the word "ANGEL" in the NIV Bible

Genesis 16:7
Genesis 16:9
Genesis 16:10
Genesis 16:11
Genesis 21:17
Genesis 22:11
Genesis 22:15
Genesis 24:7
Genesis 24:40
Genesis 31:11
Genesis 48:16
Exodus 3:2
Exodus 14:19
Exodus 23:20
Exodus 23:23
Exodus 32:34
Exodus 33:2
Numbers 20:16
Numbers 22:22
Numbers 22:23
Numbers 22:24
Numbers 22:25
Numbers 22:26
Numbers 22:27
Numbers 22:31
Numbers 22:32
Numbers 22:34
Numbers 22:35
Judges 2:1
Judges 2:4
Judges 5:23
Judges 6:11
Judges 6:12
Judges 6:20
Judges 6:21
Judges 6:22
Judges 13:3
Judges 13:6
Judges 13:9
Judges 13:13
Judges 13:15
Judges 13:16
Judges 13:17
Judges 13:20
Judges 13:21
1 Samuel 29:9
2 Samuel 14:17
2 Samuel 14:20
2 Samuel 19:27
2 Samuel 24:16
2 Samuel 24:17
1 Kings 13:18
1 Kings 19:5
1 Kings 19:7
2 Kings 1:3
2 Kings 1:15
2 Kings 19:35
1 Chronicles 21:12
1 Chronicles 21:15
1 Chronicles 21:16
1 Chronicles 21:18
1 Chronicles 21:20
1 Chronicles 21:27
1 Chronicles 21:30
2 Chronicles 32:21
Job 33:23
Psalms 34:7
Psalms 35:5
Psalms 35:6
Isaiah 37:36
Isaiah 63:9
Daniel 3:28
Daniel 6:22
Hosea 12:4
Zechariah 1:9
Zechariah 1:11
Zechariah 1:12
Zechariah 1:13
Zechariah 1:14
Zechariah 1:19
Zechariah 2:3
Zechariah 3:1
Zechariah 3:3
Zechariah 3:4
Zechariah 3:5
Zechariah 3:6
Zechariah 4:1
Zechariah 4:4
Zechariah 4:11
Zechariah 5:5
Zechariah 5:10
Zechariah 6:4
Zechariah 6:5
Zechariah 12:8
Matthew 1:20
Matthew 1:24
Matthew 2:13
Matthew 2:19
Matthew 28:2
Matthew 28:5
Luke 1:11
Luke 1:13
Luke 1:18
Luke 1:19
Luke 1:26
Luke 1:28
Luke 1:30
Luke 1:34
Luke 1:35
Luke 1:38
Luke 2:9
Luke 2:10
Luke 2:13
Luke 2:21
Luke 22:43
John 5:3
John 12:29
Acts 5:19
Acts 6:15
Acts 7:30
Acts 7:35
Acts 7:38
Acts 8:26
Acts 10:3
Acts 10:7
Acts 10:22
Acts 11:13
Acts 12:7
Acts 12:8
Acts 12:9
Acts 12:10
Acts 12:11
Acts 12:15
Acts 12:23
Acts 23:9
Acts 27:23
1 Corinthians 10:10
2 Corinthians 11:14
Galatians 1:8
Galatians 4:14
Revelation 1:1
Revelation 2:1
Revelation 2:8
Revelation 2:12
Revelation 2:18
Revelation 3:1
Revelation 3:7
Revelation 3:14
Revelation 5:2
Revelation 7:2
Revelation 8:3
Revelation 8:5
Revelation 8:7
Revelation 8:8
Revelation 8:10
Revelation 8:12
Revelation 9:1
Revelation 9:11
Revelation 9:13
Revelation 9:14
Revelation 10:1
Revelation 10:5
Revelation 10:7
Revelation 10:8
Revelation 10:9
Revelation 11:15
Revelation 14:6
Revelation 14:8
Revelation 14:9
Revelation 14:15
Revelation 14:17
Revelation 14:18
Revelation 14:19
Revelation 16:2
Revelation 16:3
Revelation 16:4
Revelation 16:5
Revelation 16:8
Revelation 16:10
Revelation 16:12
Revelation 16:17
Revelation 17:3
Revelation 17:7
Revelation 17:15
Revelation 18:1
Revelation 18:21
Revelation 19:9
Revelation 19:17
Revelation 20:1
Revelation 21:15
Revelation 21:17
Revelation 22:1
Revelation 22:6
Revelation 22:8
Revelation 22:16


Yeah! That's me (more than a few years ago.) Do you remember Rainbow Bright? That is a Sprite in my hand! This Santa looks like he was almost asleep.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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