The best blessing you can ever have, is to be a blessing in somebody’s life.įrom the Cummings Family, happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and any other time you might celebrate. It’s the best gift you can give yourself. Someone said, “You are not old by chronological age, you are old when you give up on your dreams.” I have met a number of people who are secret dream makers in people’s lives. No matter how young or old a person may be they still have dreams. They had a good time that day.Īs we move into another holiday season, why not look to help someone’s dream come true. When the schedule time came for George to take his dream ride, the rain stopped and the sun came out, as if God was saying, “I want to see this too!” After George’s dream celebration other residence of the nursing home remembered that was their dream too. The day of the event it rained and only 12 Harleys showed up. Calls went out to motorcycle clubs across the valley, and 150 cyclists signed up to make his dream come true. George exclaimed, “That’s not the same!” Finally it was time to take off the cast. George was not able, because of a cast on his leg. “What is it you want?” George replied, “I want to ride a motorcycle, not just any motorcycle, but a Harley!”īefore second wind could work on a dream for a patient, they have to make sure they are physically able to do it. Laurie that was a challenge she could not let go by. Laurie, don’t worry about my dream because, “the only thing I want you can’t do?” Well for Ms. The last story I want to share with you is a dream celebration for a man named George who told Ms. I went to a Rotary meeting one day and heard of someone just like that in Wheeling. Give to someone that can’t give back to you. It’s time to take the selfishness back out of Christmas. Yes, our family should be on that list, but also those that are less fortunate than ourselves. In a year of failing economy, home foreclosure, record job lost, you can still have a great Christmas. Not that I have anything against money, I accept all donations (smile). It’s not always about money, the things that might be remembered longer are our acts of kindness. Now we have an opportunity to give our best to someone else. For those that believe in the Christian way of thinking, God gave us his very best, in his only son. But your first date with her you took to the most expensive place you could afford, the Brown Derby.” He was right when you are in love you give your very best. My father told me that he knew I was in love with my then date who turn out to be my lovely wife, because he said “when you took all the other girls out on a first date you went to McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s or some other fast food restaurant. (John 3:16)” Which proves you can give without loving, but you can not love and not give. “For God so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that who so ever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. In reality, true Christmas gift giving goes all the way back to God giving the gift of his only begotten son. It was usually two bolts of fine cloth that may have cost their weekly salary. Even the royal garbage men sent the queen gifts, and it better not be garbage. Queen Elizabeth I demanded that she receive Christmas presents from the highest to the lowest of her court and employees - all the way down to the cooks in the kitchen. King Henry VII began a custom of Christmas “boxes” as a means to extract tribute from his subjects. But the kings made sure the gift giving was reciprocal, if you did not give a gift, you were not going to get one. King John of Magna Charta fame gave his servants gifts of fine clothes. King Richard the Lionhearted annually distributed his treasure among the knights and nobles at this time. English kings kept the spirit of giving alive, choosing Christmas time to spread the wealth. In England, in the 11th century, William the Conqueror set an example of gift giving by shipping the major part of his plunder, bounty, or loot from the defeat of the English Saxons to the Pope in Rome. Christmas was considered to be the greatest feast of them all, and Christmas time became the reason and the season to give costly gifts to each other. I mean let’s just admit it, who doesn’t love getting gifts? Getting gifts on your birthday is wonderful, how great is it to get gifts on someone else’s birthday too! When they did accept it, the custom was tied to a feast celebrated by the church. It was centuries before they accepted the custom. The early Christians, however, shunned Christmas-giving, for the very reason that it was popular among what they called the “pagan Romans.” At this time, Romans exchanged gifts of sweet pastry, lamps, precious stones and gold and silver.
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