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Light Thought for Today

“Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.” — Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Thought for Today

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”–– Anne Frank [Source:http://www.joyprogram.com/]

Now This is the Way to Begin Advent!

So This is a Food Hangover

This is Callie looking like I felt after Thanksgiving dinner. By the way her head is sticking out of her heated bed. Do we have a spoiled cat or what?

Black Friday

My custom has been to talk about Story Corps National Day of Listening as an alternative to Black Friday Shopping. I still think this is a great idea and invite you to the Story Corp website for more information.

However this year I thought I would do something a little different. Does your family have a day after Thanksgiving tradition that does not involve shopping? We would love to hear about it. Please leave a comment and share your ideas and activities.

All Good Gifts

Thank You Lord for your Blessings on Me

I am Grateful, I am Blessed

Rev. Paulette Pipe recently led the morning meditation at Unity Village Chapel using the mantra I am grateful, I am blessed. Breath in I am grateful and out I am blessed. Repeat it even if you think you have nothing to be grateful for — things will come. We have so much to be thankful for — life, waking up in the morning, health, clean water to drink and food to eat and the list goes on.

In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season don’t forget to stop and breath I am grateful, I am blessed.

You may follow this powerful meditation in it’s entirety by clicking on the video below.

Count You Blessings

Keeping Christmas in the Heart

When I hear someone complaining about holiday music and decorations before Thanksgiving I smile and think they had better not come to my house. My nativity collection and winter village have been up for three weeks. After finding their places in our new home they may stay up the rest of the year. We have also been listening to Christmas music and watching holiday movies.

Everyone complains about the intense month of activity and spending that surrounds the holidays, yet we still do it — every year. Maybe we need to rethink what we’re celebrating.

What if instead we kept Christmas in our heart all year? Recognizing the Spirit of God within us, positive upbeat music, peace on earth, goodwill to all and people being a little nicer and kinder sound like things we could use more than once a year to me.

So this year instead of taking the baby out the manger, wrapping him up and putting him back on the shelf let’s keep Christmas in our hearts all year.