Holiday Thoughts

So, Christmas is, what, seven weeks from yesterday???? (Or is it "lasterday"? Inside joke!)

Wow.

Time is flying by and the fall leaves - so radiantly beautiful this year!! - are falling like snow.... which will be here soon enough!

The holiday spirit has started making itself known, too, although in tiny little fits and starts. Like shopping for my St. Patrick's Center family. That usually kick-starts the feel-good part of the season. It's so much fun imagining their faces, seeing the things they asked for on their list but then seeing the "extras" like special cookies or gourmet coffees and hot chocolate.

Knowing that I can help someone else out, because I have gotten so very, very, extremely gracious and generous help so many times in my life that I cannot begin to count them....

Knowing that for every person who butted into my life and made it harder, or uglier or tried to make it hateful, God put people in my path to make life easier, and more beautiful, and more full of love to straighten it out.....

Knowing that no matter how many times I "fail" at whatever, I'll always get a second chance from the ones who matter and especially from the One who matters most....

Well, sounds like "giving thanks", now, doesn't it?

Let the holidays begin!
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