Last Blog until after Christmas

Hello everyone.  Welcome to my favourite time of year.  Not because of all the presents I might receive, or the number of cards I might get, or the number of parties I might go to, but because it is the Season For Giving. 

We can give in so many ways, a smile, a hug, a greeting to warm someone's heart.  I love it so much words fail me. 

So have a really happy, peaceful and joyful Christmas and all the best is wished for you all in 2010.  Love from ME!

A message from Neale.

This is a card made for my husband's staff. (One of many)  Its from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Christmas CD.  I really didn't want to do it today as I was tired from the 10 I made yesterday.  However I remembered "do it now!" so I did it.  Then I received an e mail from my old friend Neale Donal Walsche so I thought I'd share it with you today.  It reads:-
"Life is not going to come down there and sprinkle glitter dust on your shoulders to let you know that you are Good...or that you are walking the Right Path...or
that you are making the Best Decision.

Take the next step. Right now. Stop waiting for a "sign" from the "gods." Your sign is your intuition, wrapped in your desire.


Hesitation is not a stopping place on the road to heaven."

I think we sometimes forget that life is not a rehearsal.  So do it now!

Giving and receiving

Hello all!  Are you all ready for the big day!.  Well I've never been so far behind with Christmas.  But I am sure it will all come together in the end and we will be eating our  lunch some time on Christmas day!  Miss you Mark,  one of my favourite cooks in all the world. ( Miriam is the other one).

Christmas  got me thinking about success and what it means.  To some it the big job, the big house, the flashy car and everything good thing you could wish for materially.  To others its all things spiritual and I guess most of us mere mortals fall somewhere in the middle. 

We often ponder "Why are we here?  What is our purpose?"  I think the answer might be to know ourselves as well as it is possible to do so.  Then to go out there and behave towards others as we would wish them to behave towards us.  There is a quote from St. Francis of Assisi that goes something like "for it is in giving that we receive",  I think we say "What goes around, comes around".  Well , give out as much love, care and consideration this Christmas Season as you can and throughout the whole of 2010 and beyond .  I think you might be surprised how happy you will be!

I wish for you all Joy,  Happiness and Peace

Hello to you all today.  I am sorry I missed the blog yesterday but it was one of my buisiest day so far this Christmastime.  There were cards to make and then write.  Some to post and some to deliver by hand.  Coffee to have with my friend Rita, and put the world to rights of course.  All in all a busy but very fruitful day.  I am still waiting to hear about the Nativity play, I guess it will be tomorrow as Joe and Grace are very wrapped up in their own Christmas social whirl right now.  I hope you all like the graphic.    Some of the images therein are courtsey of aimeeasher.  http://www.aimeeasher.com/  The composition is all mine and I am very pleased with it.

First Nativity Play

This little chap is my  grandson Joseph.  He had his first Nativity Play tonight at school and was a Sheep.  I have not had any feedback yet but no doubt it will have gone very well.  The most important thing about all of it was that Mummy, Daddy and Gracie would be there to see him.  He was so excited when I spoke to him yesterday!

Can't wait to talk to Joe tomorrow and see how he got on.  Love you Joe!

Love Grandma.

Only Love and Respect - A quotation fron Pope Benedict XVI

Our cities are inhabited by "invisible men and women", people who "now and again appear on the front pages or on television screens, and are exploited to the last drop for as long as their news and image attract attention. This is a perverse mechanism which unfortunately we find difficult to resist. The city first hides people them exposes to the public, without pity or with false pity", when the truth is that "each human story is a sacred story and calls for the greatest respect.

The city is made up of us all",  "each of us contributes to its life and its moral climate, for good or for evil. The confine between good and evil passes through each of our hearts". Yet, "the mass media tend to make us feel as if we are spectators, as if evil only concerned others, and that certain things could never happen to us. Whereas we are all 'actors' and, in evil as in good, our behaviour has an effect on others".  People who, "in silence, ... strive to practice the evangelical law of love, which moves the world". They are "men and women of all ages who have understood that condemnation, complaint and recrimination serve no purpose, and that it is more worthwhile to respond to evil with good. This changes things; or rather, it changes people and, as a consequence, improves society.
end of quote taken from the Vatican Newsletter of today.

Oh How I wish we could all respond in the manner described, what a different world it would be.  I say well said Pope Benedict.

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What will you ask today?

This is a proposition from the writer and philosopher Neale Donald Walsche.

"If you ask an impertinent question, you are on theway to a pertinent answer.

Therefore, never be afraid to ask the question that it seems shouldn't, especially if it has to do with religion or God or spirituality.

 It is when you think you have all the answers that expansion ends, growth stops, and your arrogance begins.

What question do you wish to humbly ask today?"

Very thought provoking I'd say.