A mother gives her daughters jade and lapis jewelry bought by their father over 25 years ago before her daughters were even born.
A 25 year old daughter gives her parents each a framed poem titled “Mom” and ” Dad” that she had written in the 8th grade. The parents had never seen the poems before; the daughter discovered them recently in an attic clean-up.
Daughters give their Dad a twelve month calendar made especially for him with pictures of his daughters and his pet cat.
A Dad gives his daughters a bag a their favorite childhood candies — Reese’s peanut butter Christmas trees, Christmas Kit Kats, Life Savers Books, Holiday M and M’s among the candy.
Does this sound wonderful? It was. It was my Christmas this year. We decided to give gifts from the heart instead all the expensive gifts avoiding the holiday on slaught and hype. We were worried it wouldn’t work. But it did. It was the most wonderful Christmas we have had. God Blessed us!
What do you think?
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I started reading Rick Warren’s bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life”. This is the second time for my reading this book; I had read it previously in 2005. The point of the book is you must have a to drive your life. Drive is defined as “to guide, to control, or to direct.” According to the author life without purpose is meaningless. And life driven by something other than purpose (i.e., guilt, resentment, anger, fear, materialism, need for approval) is a life in motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Trivial, petty and pointless — life without purpose. I’m only to Chapter 3 of the book. (You read a chapter a day over a 40 day period. Do you know the significance of 40? A topic for another “Thought”.) But I am already thinking about my purpose. Given that I only read the book and became a subscriber to it’s philosophy a short three years ago, why do I need to think about my purpose? Why do I want/need to read the book again? Do I need to discover my purpose again? Renew it? Change it? Maybe I do; maybe I don’t. We’ll see as I progress over the next 37 chapters and days. Regardless, I do believe that purpose provides a purpose. Huh? That is clear to me. Does purpose drive you? Does purpose direct you? What do you think? More later from me as I progress through “The Purpose Driven Life.”
I posted five new pictures of my cat Huey on his MySpace page this morning. See the link to Huey’s MySpace page. He is such a joy. And then I think how cruel we are to dogs and cats. Do you see the Oprah Winfrey show on puppy mills this past week. It was how we breed for profit. And the breeding is extremely cruel. Dogs never allowed out of cages. Overbreed to they are ill. No medical attention. And when they can no longer breed, they are shot and killed. What is wrong with us. Whether you like dogs or cats or not, how can we tolerate this cruelty? All for profit. What is wrong with America? With the world? Granted there are more pressing issues and concerns facing the world. But if we as a society can tolerate the inhumane treatment of animals. . .it says a lot about us as human beings. And it is not something to be proud of. Fixing this is simple. Outlaw puppy mills. Outlaw the killing of cats and dogs. (Killing is permitted on many states, so when the breeding ability ends, the dogs are just killed.) And stop buying pets from puppy mills. Cruelty to animals must stop. Step up! Don’t tolerate! It’s that simple! What do you think?
You all know I like animals. I haven’t had a pet for years. Last year my kids talked me into a getting a cat. He–Huey–is a rescued cat from Kentucky. He lives here with me in New Jersey. Huey is a joy and provides so much inter peace that I speak of. Get to know Huey. Check out his MySpace site under the link Huey Yoakum.
