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On the seventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Seven synonyms for walking
Six figures advancing
Five...gol...den... ideas...
Four writing books (aka books on writing)
Three red pens
Two characters in love
And a Pulitzer for all to see.
May your Seventh Day of Christmas be full of variety!
On the sixth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six figures advancing
Five...gol...den... ideas...
Four writing books (aka books on writing)
Three red pens,
Two characters in love,
And a Pulitzer for all to see.
May your Sixth Day of Christmas be full of abundant blessings!
On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Five... gol...den... ideas...
Four writing books (aka books on writing)
Three red pens,
Two characters in love,
And a Pulitzer for all to see.
This is the day of the musical ritard. I hope it's a slow and restful one for you as well...
On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four writing books (aka books on writing)
Three red pens,
Two characters in love,
And a Pulitzer for all to see.
Have an awesome Fourth Day of Christmas!!!
On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three red pens,
Two characters in love,
And a Pulitzer for all to see.
On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two characters in love,
And a Pulitzer for all to see.
Have a great second day!
Merry Christmas!!!!
If you're reading this, then...well, you shouldn't be. Get off the computer! But regardless, I'm still grateful you stopped by.
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas Day and a restful Christmas Season. Yes, I said that right. Most of the world thinks of the time between Thanksgiving and December 25 as the Christmas Season. But according to most church calendars, that's actually the Advent Season--the time of waiting. The Christmas season starts on December 25 and runs for--yes, you guessed it--twelve days. The twelve days are followed by Epiphany on January 6; the day we celebrate the arrival of the wise men to the baby Jesus.
For many years, I've tried to celebrate the Twelve Days--sometimes by doing something special on each day, other times by just observing a quieter, more reflective time than during the rest of the year. I even wrote an article about the Twelve Days, which you can read here.
To help me celebrate this year, I'm going to share a song with you. It's called The Twelve Days of (a Writer's) Christmas. You may have heard of a similar song, but I assure you it's just a coincidence.
May you feel God's peace and blessings on this day...
Time Magazine picking "You" as the their Person of the Year might have been hokey, but the group Beliefnet picked as their Most Inspiring Person of the Year is perfect and indeed inspiring. The winning "person" goes to the Amish of Nickel Mines, Pa.
You'll recall that community lost five young girls when a local milkman stormed into a one-room schoolhouse and shot ten of them.
During the ordeal, one of the girls, 13-year-old Marian Fisher, offered to be killed first in hopes that the others would be spared. (View video: A Young Girl's Sacrifice.)...Within hours of the shooting, the families of the children not only expressed their forgiveness of the killer but reached out to his family, giving food and raising money for his wife and children.
In a Beliefnet video interview, Herman Bontrager, a spokesman for the Amish of Nickel Mines, explained, “The Amish believe that we must forgive because we ourselves need to be forgiven. [They're] trying to live the way Jesus lived. He turned the other cheek, he told us to love everybody, to love our enemies."
In this article, a Beliefnet member asks, "If the Amish can forgive the man who killed their children, how much more should the rest of us be able to forgive the petty hurts and perceived insults we receive each day?”
Yeah, I've got some of that I need to be working on this Christmas season.
If you're struggling with the Writer's or Christmas Blues and want a healthy distraction, check out this article and the related videos, and also check out the the articles on the other nominees. They'll inspire you.
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