Snowfall

Il Duomo-Florence Italy Dec. 2010

"The first fall of snow is not only an event,
it is a magical event.
You go to bed in one kind of a world
and
wake up in another quite different,
and if this is not enchantment
then where is it to be found?" ~J.B. Priestley

Welcome Morning

There is joy in all

in the hair I brush each morning,

in the cannon towel newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning

in the outcry from the kettle that heats my tea each morning...

in the spoon and the chair that cry, "Hello there..." each morning

in the godhead of the table that I set my silver, plate, cup upon each morning. All this is God, right here in my pea green house each morning

and I mean, though often forget, to faint down by the kitchen table in prayer of rejoicing as the holy birds at the kitchen window peck for their marriage of seeds.

So while I think of it, let me paint a thank you on my palm for this God,

this laughter of the morning, lest it go unspoken. The joy that isn't shared,

I've heard dies young." -Anne Sexton

From Our Home to Yours

"Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us,

that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance.

It may weave a spell of nostalgia.

Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer,

but always it will be a day of remembrance-

a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."

Augusta E. Rundel

Filling Our Hearts With Song

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever." ~ Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954), American author, 'Song of Years'.

Kisses from Heaven

"Snowflakes are kisses from heaven." -author unknown

Abracadabra

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,

and behold,

everything is softer and more beautiful."Norman Vincent Peale

Jingu Bells Jingu Bells, Jingu All the Way

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