Faith

Many secular Christmas songs have been written over the years, some successful, but most never made it to the big time. The second most popular song behind Bing Crosby’s White Christmas almost didn’t get recorded.

I had been sick, but today I was much better. I craved the outdoors after being inside so much. Raking the leaves around my back porch, I made a large pile of them. With almost no wind blowing, I decided to burn them, now.

When WWII began in 1941, Daddy moved us to Orange, Texas to his new job at the shipyard. That trip of 100 miles was one we kids never forgot. We crawled into the bed of an old truck just big enough for us and our few sticks of furniture.

It has been said that marriage was God’s most important ordained institution. Since the time of Adam and Eve when the two were joined together by God Himself in the Garden of Eden, marriage has been cussed and discussed, praised and pitied.

We had dinner with friends last night.There is nothing unusual about that, except these were all people I did not know; people my husband, Peter, had met while taking his daily hike in Mexico. This was not the first gathering of Peter’s friends we’ve had.

The 2023 Empty Stocking Program sponsored by the Sabine County Children Service Board has wrapped up another successful season for the children of Sabine County.

I sank into my recliner, my coffee and toast already in place. My reading for this morning, in the Old Testament was in Job. Ugh, not my favorite book. All the accusing and fault finding, from so called friends, I can live without. Could I just skip the pity party and go on to the happy ending? No?

I recall that my mother, Alice, would complain about her nerves. After a long day of work in her beauty shop she would often go to her medicine cabinet, pull out a blue bottle, and take a spoon full of liquid. She said that it calmed her nerves.

”I awoke this morning with my Mother’s last words flowing through my mind. In the months that her health began to fail, she made several visits with her children and eventually moved to my sister Pat's home in Henderson, Texas.

No, it isn’t Christmas yet, but many of us are already planning for it. Family and friends, giving and receiving.