Saturday, December 10, 2011

Meet the Neighbor

My neighbor in New Port Richey.  Isn't he handsome?  Christmas colors!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Keeping Faith


We're in the second week of Advent, and I want to share this wonderful little essay by James Dillet Freeman on Keeping Faith. Upon reading it, I was inspired me and strengthened, and I hope it will do the same for you.

"Christmas is a way of keeping faith in the power and love of God and the goodness of things, even when we see only small evidence of their presence in the world around us. Christmas is more than just a festive celebration, a tinsel time for getting gifts and having parties. It is a declaration that there is an element---divine, isn't it?----in us human beings which is stronger than all our weaknesses, braver than all our fears, surer than all our doubts---something which in the darkest days proclaims its faith in the advancing light and, even through the worst of winter lies yet ahead, keeps confident that spring is on its way.

Let the snow fall as it may, and let the short days hang on dark and cold; there is that in us which refuses to submit to icy season or gloomy reason, but stops forth into the wind and snow and says in a cheery voice to the world and every passerby, 'Merry Christmas!'"