Merry Christmas from Heaven

I still hear the songs
I still see the lights
I still feel your love
on cold wintry nights.

I still share your hopes
and all your cares
I’ll even remind you
to please say all your prayers.

I just want to tell you
you still make me proud
You stand head and shoulders
above all the crowd.

Keep trying each moment
to stay in His grace
I came here before you
to help set your place.

You don’t have to be
perfect all the time
He forgives you the slip
if you continue to climb.

To my family and friends
please be thankful today
I’m still close beside you
in a new special way.

I love you all dearly
now don’t shed a tear
cause I’m spending my
Christmas with Jesus this year.

Why Women Cry

A little boy asked his mother, 'Why are you crying?''
'Because I'm a woman,' she told him. 'I don't understand,' he said.
His Mom just hugged him and said,'And you never will.'
'Later the little boy asked his father, 'Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?''
'All women cry for no reason,' was all his dad could say.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked,
'God, why do women cry so easily?'
God said:'When I made the woman she had to be special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,
yet gentle enough to give comfort.
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection
that many times comes from her children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up,
and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue with out complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances,
even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and
fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.I gave her wisdom
to know that a good husband never hurts his wife,
but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfaltering.
Finally, I gave her a tear to shed.This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.
''You see my son,' said God, 'the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes,
because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides.'

A SOLDIER'S CHRISTMAS

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.
I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,

NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,NOT EVEN A TREE.

NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO OF WHOM I 'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALIZED THE FAMILIES THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD,THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES AND STARTED TO CRY.
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
'SANTA DON'T CRY,THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE';
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,MY COUNTRY, MY HOME.
'THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,WHISPERED,
'CARRY ON SANTA,IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE.'
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
'MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.'

I wish you enough

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess .
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

When you are sending someone on a journey whether it be work, school or a trip send them off with an "I wish you enough" instead of good-bye

Holiday Horrors

It is the time of the year that I have grown to dread. Don't get me wrong I love Christmas and the meaning behind it, I just hate what it has become. The stores here have had Christmas in the aisles since September. I had a hard time getting Halloween costumes for my boys, because the shelves had been cleared for Christmas. There is so much commercialism this time of year that it can make a person ill.
I am not of the 'old mind set' mind you, but I do miss when people thought more about family and friends than what gifts they would get. My fondest memories are of going to Grand-Mum's on Christmas Eve and seeing all of the family in one place. I would catch up with family that I only saw once a year, we all had our roles in the meal preparation. My cousin and I were in charge of the shrimp salad. Now this salad was a green salad that just had shrimp in it, but by the time my cousin and I got the salad to the table the shrimp was gone lol. Every year we were in charge of it and every year the shrimp salad would be shrimp-less. I think it took Grand-Mum 2 years to finaly buy an extra can of shrimp. After the meal and caroling we would go look at Christmas lights, this was back when the houses didn't just take a string of lights and throw them in the trees. People took the time to get a ladder out and string the lights nicely. Nowadays you can't even go to the neighborhoods that were known for their lights and enjoy them. People just don't want to take the time to hang them any more.
So now as a parent I am trying to show my boys the way Christmas is meant to be celebrated, with Church Services and family gatherings. I limit how many gifts they get every year from me and other family. They get one gift from me, 2 from santa plus their stockings and anyone buying them gifts cannot go over a set limit. I think it is working so far, whenever my oldest is asked what he wants he says, I don't need anything, I already have my family and friends and that is enough. This year on his own he chose a little girl's name from the sharing tree and bought her an outfit and with my help a baby doll for her to cuddle. He used his entire paycheck on her gifts instead of buying something for himself. Now if only he would be that selfless the entire year.

Black Friday

You hear so many horror stories about Black Friday..I have even lived through a 'horror story' lol. Today was so amazingly un-Black Friday like it was scary. I get off work an hour after everyone opens their doors and go to the 3 stores I had planned plus a few more. We were done by 745am..not bad when you basically wander the stores trying to find where they are hiding everything on sale. We even had time to stopfor breakfast before I had to go into Mom mode. Of course the Breakfast could have been better, but who is gonna bitch? Not me, well not much anyway.

People Who Type to See Their Thoughts in Writing

I am on several sites where you can do live chat. I have found that many chatters like to type even if noone wnats to hear or read what they have to say. How do you tell them to shut up nicely? I have yet to figure it out, so I just keep talking with the other people in the room blowing over the 'big mouth'. Even then they try to put in their tw cents worth.

Lemming Philosophy

Lemming Philosophy is when people go along unquestionably with popular opinion. I see this in my day to day life as well as my "Net" life. Wouldn't it be nice if there were actually mass amounts of people who thought for themselves? I wonder what the statistics would be for Lemming to Non-Lemmings in each population. Would I be surprised and find that more people think for themselves than not? I actually hope that would be the case.

Blog Comments

I am part of another site, that includes Blogs as part of the profile page. Many people utilize the Blogs and the 'Spotlight' them which basically means they are posted on the home page f the site for any/everyone to read them. I had clicked on one of these profiles and basically thought that person was a bit pathetic. All of her comments were sympathetic towards her even though anyone I knew who read it thought about the same thing as I did. I made a comment to said Blog which was not sympathetic and basically was all me. I checked back about 2-30 minutes later to see if there were any more comments. The user was online, I thought nothing of it but when I checked the comments mine was no longer there. She had deleted it. My main question was if you do not want people to comment on your Blog why put it in the spotlight? You are not always going to find people who agree with you. When a comment is deleted, it says alot about that person and how they are only on for gratification not real life. I did put a rebuttal Blog on my profile but the 'girl' did not comment on it, when i know she did look at it. I do not think she liked me referring to her as a Lemming.

First Blog

I am new to this, so it may take some time for me to get the hang of it. There may be times where I do not blog at all for weeks then other times where I blog a few times a day. Be patient with me. hopefully in the long run it will be worth it.