One day last week, a friend and I went to the grocery store to eat lunch. Yes, there is a deli inside and it is fantastic. Before we were leaving, I felt like going over to the coffee area and getting an Irish Cream. As I was in line, I found myself looking at all the people and saw a little girl, maybe nine or so. You could tell she was a sick little girl and that she had cancer of some sort ( as she hardly had any hair on her head). As I looked up, I saw her beautiful mom with courage and strength and in my mind I wondered what turmoil this family had been through. As I continued to look I saw the love that was showered over this little girl. She had a little pink purse just her size and a stuffed puppy dog sticking its head out. I thought to myself how lucky I am, my daughter, and my family. And in this I gave a smile and began to go on my way. As I was leaving , this little girl waited for me came up to check out and came up to me with the most angelic smile and sparkling eyes that danced like stars . She said “Hi” as happy as she could. I managed a happy hi though my heart was breaking inside. I started to say something about the puppy dog, but she didn’t hear. Then, she smiled a big smile and waved good-bye. As my eyes filled with water, I looked at the mom so in love with her child, we smiled at each other and I headed on my way. As my friend was saying “Mary, don’t cry” My heart gave in to a beautiful girl with sparkling eyes that made me realized how blessed I am, each and everyday of my life. I will continue to pray for the girl with sparkling eyes and her mother to overcome and be healed from their adversities. As for me that day, I was healed out of the selfishness in my life, if not for the moment of a beautiful nine-year old girl with a heart of an angel decided to smile at me. Thank you God for the blessings you give in my life each and everyday.
Category: Inspirational
This is taken from Motivationalist, Tamara Lowe. I heard this thanks to my awesome Sister-in-law and wanted to share:
To be a survivor in this Amazing Race with the need for speed you need God’s Grace and if your desperate like housewives watching days of our lives, you can’t cope without hope and that is not on a soap. If your looking to Oprah or Dr. Phil you can shop non-stop or pop a pill, but the void won’t fill and the pain won’t kill until you love the one that hung on a hill. Kicking back in your lazy boy easy chair watching who wants to be a millionaire, nah your not gonna find it there. No American Idol or Council Tribal has the final answer that will satisfy ya. C S I ain’t got a clue. S.V.U. Don’t know what to do Not the E R or those seen on a CD TV DVD or MP3 can save you and me. CNN has got no Good News here’s a headline you must choose. It’s not a simple life paris hilton, It’s treading on thin ice living in sin. You can be an apprentice for Donald Trump or eat Fear Factor fast food from a dump you can be a heavy hitter or wheel a fortune winner or a Fox news no spin spinner or flat sinner but you better check this life that your livin’ and make sure your sins are forgiven I bet cha 50 cent Elvis done come and went, and eventually every Black-eyed-pea, Gwen Stefani, P-Diddy and Britney. Every wanna-be on M T V with their Icy Bling, every Dixie Chick that Sings, they all gonna see the king of kings. I don’t care if your J lo, Leno or Bono. One thing you gotta know. Some day your gonna die, Bro. Then Where are you gonna go. Hey, i’m not talking some punk junk that is irrelevant. Like your Grandma’s church from way back when. It’s not some preacher feature on T B N. that you need to be liking or listening. The real superstar is Jesus Christ. He’s the way, the truth and the life. One day he’s going ti split the sky. He is the brightest light and the highest high and so what I came to say and what I’m telling you is don’t buy that stupid stuff they be selling ya it’s all designed to fill your head and waste your space until your dead here’s the bottom line in my rhyme. Give your life to God while there is still time.
Who doesn’t know this beautiful song. The words and music are originally by Irving Berlin. For those of you that know me, You know I am very patriotic. I am also a huge Celine Dion fan. This song is so inspiring it is just absolutely beautiful and to think Celine is a Canadian… Wow, I think she should be American. What do you think?
There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew: “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
- Quote from “A Christmas Carol”
By Francis P. Church, first published in The New York Sun in 1897.
Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
