Happy New Year!

Can't believe another year has come and gone.

Just a few photos from the year. Hope 

everyone has enjoyed their holidays. Have a

very happy and prosperous new year!

A Family Christmas

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday

greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and 

of families united. ~Norman Vincent Peale

A family is a place where principles are

hammered and honed on the anvil of

everyday living. ~Charles Swindoll

Choose for yourselves today the one you will worship....

As for me and my family, we will worship the Lord. ~Joshua 24:15

Christmas Is...

Christmas is not just a day of the year. 

It is also...and more importantly...

a condition of the heart. ~Marie T. Freeman

If Christmas is about anything, Christmas 

is the story of God changing worlds and

putting limitations upon Himself. It's the

story of a baby born in Bethlehem, who was

much more powerful than the Roman

Empire that existed that day. ~John Maxwell

The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice. ~Psalm 97:1

A Little Christmas Cheer

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Barbara Johnson

Life goes on. Keep on smiling and the whole

world smiles with you. ~Dennis Swanberg

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may 

remain in you, and that your joy may be full. ~John 15:11

Spirit of Christmas

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel 

and found their Lamb; the wise men saw 

the light of a star and found their Wisdom. ~Fulton Sheen

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. ~Norman Vincent Peale

"And they shall call His name Immanuel," 

which is translated, "God with us." ~Matthew 1:23

Christmas Prayer

When will we realize that we're not troubling God 

with our questions and concerns? His heart is open 

to hear us ---his touch nearer than our next thought

---as if no one in the world existed but us. 

Our very personal God wants 

to hear from us personally. ~Gigi Graham Tchividjian

God makes prayer as easy as possible for us.

He's completely approachable and available,

and He'll never mock or upbraid us for

bringing our needs before Him. ~Shirley Dobson

Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, 

and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will 

be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives,

and the one who searches finds, and to the one 

who knocks, the door will be opened. ~Matthew 7:7-8

Christmas Giving

This is Christmas, the real meaning of it: God loving, searching, giving Himself to us; man needing, receiving, giving himself to God. Redemption's glorious exchange of gifts, without which we cannot live, without which we cannot give to those we love anything of lasting value. This is the meaning of Christmas, the wonder and glory of it. ~Ruth Bell Graham

Let us give according to our incomes, lest God make our incomes match our gifts. ~Peter Marshall

The righteous give and don't hold back.  ~Proverbs 21:26

The Heart of Christmas

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide-open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost 2000 years. ~George Matthew Adams

To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others. ~Henry C. Link

Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me. ~Matthew 25:40