Sunday, December 23, 2012

Believe


As a child I remember believing in magic. I remember that my parents used to leave hints and clues to foster that belief. It seems so silly now, but the truth is that teaching me the hope in believing has been one of the most powerful lessons that they ever taught me. As an adult it was those same signs, although not planted but seemingly meaningless, a stranger holding the door, a gentle snow fall, children asking Santa to give their gifts to someone who truly needs them, a relatively unknown neighbor being invited to share a meal with your family so they are not alone, a hug from an old friend, that give me joy and hope for the future. Believe.
 “Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast”
Alice in Wonderland

Saturday, December 15, 2012

The Funny Thing About Christmas...


It just so happens that when Melinda and Rudd find the most perfect of perfect trees at the Festival of Trees, no one, not even the engineer (Rudd), bothers to notice that the tree is exactly two feet too tall for the house. It’s a good thing that Micah is handy with a saw and Melinda has a quirky love for Christmas decorations, because you can hardly tell that we had to take a few feet off the top.




Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas