Merry Christmas Target

Here we are very early in the Holiday season. Chris and Tammy just called to tell me as they were leisurely strolling through Target they were greeted with Merry Christmas big and bold on Holiday signs. Cards, decorations, and gifts to purchase that say to us Christmas is about Christ the Lord and His Birth.

I appreciate you Target and employees that take the time to provide a greeting of “Merry Christmas” as I go about my shopping and enjoying the joy. I do love your stores and it’s one of my favorite stops almost daily.

I pray that we as customers will remember to greet Target employees with Merry Christmas and pause to say, Thank you.
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Great quotes

This is National Education Week and the NEA sent us some great quotes from great people concerning teaching and education. I thought we might enjoy these.
…A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
____Henry Brooks Adams
…Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
_____Japanese Proverb
…One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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Sponge “Peacock”

As I was reading in early morning from Ezekiel 13, this passage of scripture really stood out to me
in light of the many things on our minds at this time.
It says: “The fact is that they’ve lied to my people…. When
people build a wall, they’re right behind them slapping on whitewash. Tell
those who are slapping on the whitewash, that when a torret of rain comes
and the hailstones crash down and the hurricane sweeps in. Then the wall
collapses, what’s the good of the whitewash that you slapped on so
liberally, making it look good.”

Having myself gone through Katrina here in Louisiana with all the wood that was soaked in the floods
and rot, I knew when the scripture said the storms came, the whitewash wall
would not stand. Today one of our pastors said that if you left a sponge in
the water that it would eventually rot. He explained that holding the word
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The Friendship Creation

After finishing the book, THE BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA by Katherine Paterson,Mrs. O
had her fifth grade students prepare a speech from the perspective of the main character,
Jess Aarons, who had matured into a well rounded adult. We were to
pretend that we were asked to give a speech on friendship. We were to
weave a metaphor or simile through their work using scenes from the story.
We were to share with the reader something of ourselves.

Here is my speech.
Entitled: The Friendship Creation

Hello! I am Jess Aarons, and I am here to talk to you about friendship.
This may not be interesting to you right now, but trust me it will one day.
You never know when your friend is going to disappear. I might talk about
friendship different than your teacher does.
I had a friend named Leslie. She was one of the most interesting friends I
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My Name is Nicholas

I am nine years old. I am in fourth grade. I go to a private school. I am a twin. I have a twin brother and he looks like Zorro on this page. My Mom is Needles and you can read about her on The Daily Lily. She is a nurse and does lots of work and fun things with us too. My Dad is a hard worker and lots of fun for us. He teaches us a lot of things.

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My name is Nathaniel

I am nine years old. I am in fourth grade and I go to a private school. The same one my Mom went to when she was a little girl. I am a twin. I am a twin brother. My brother is named Nicholas and you will see him dressed like Flash on this page. My Mom is a beautiful nurse and she likes writing on The Daily Lily. My Dad is lots and lots of fun and he works very hard for our family.

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LOVE YA

One morning you will never wake up.
Do all your friends know you love them?
I was thinking…I could die today,
tomorrow or next week,
and I wondered if I had any wounds needing to be healed,
friendships that needed rekindling or three words needing to be said.
Let every one of your friends know you love them.
Even if you think they don’t love you back,
you would be amazed at what those three little words and a smile can do.
And just in case GOD calls me home before I see you again…….
I LOVE YA!!!

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Headlines: Oprah Gives Audience Members Debit Cards

Oprah Winfrey has famously given members of her audience new cars, paid off their debts and fulfilled their wildest dreams. Now she’s given them what she calls the “gift of giving back.”
On a show that aired Monday, Winfrey gave more than 300 audience members $1,000 debit cards sponsored by the Bank of America to donate to a charitable cause. Winfrey called the show her “favorite giveaway ever.”

“I can honestly say that every gift I’ve ever given has brought at least as much happiness to me as it has to the person I’ve given it to,” the 52-year-old talk-show host said. “That’s the feeling I want to pass on to you.”

People can give the entire sum to one person _ relatives aren’t eligible _ or they can split it among charitable causes. Audience members also received a DVD recorder to tape their stories for a future show.

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