Getting Better

MOM is getting to feeling better, she’s still not her best but there is progress.  So I opened the rest of my presents.  I hardly knew where to begin.  But that only took a nano second to decide.

I guess I was a good boy this year.

But you know the best present I got… my MOM. 

I get the same best present every year and I never get tired or bored with her.  She always says I’m her best present next to her Savior’s love.  I don’t mind being second place to him.

I wanted to share this picture MOM’s friend took on Christmas Eve at MOM’s church. 

Look how the Christmas lights make the cross glow.  It reminds me that Christ IS the Light and that the cross' shadow, even on that first Christmas, falls across the manger.

 

MOM does something every year after Christmas is over, and it last the whole year long. I thought you might like doing it too.  She doesn’t throw away the Christmas cards!  She put them in a basket and then draws a new one out every Monday morning. She then puts the card selected in a prominent place and makes that person her focus for the week.

Then she calls the person who sent her the card, or thinks positive thoughts about him or her throughout the day, offers a prayer each morning or sends an email telling them she is thinking about them. Or, sends a "just thinking of you" card.

You know what? Your Christmas cards show how much you have to be grateful for. Extend this feeling of gratitude throughout 2012.

Thanks for all the well wishes for my MOM, she felt every single one and I know it helped.

Blessings,

Goose