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12 Creative Ways To Recycle Your Christmas Cards!
Don't throw your Christmas cards away! There are so many creative ways to use your Christmas cards, many of which you can do with your kids. We have brought together some ideas below.
Christmas jigsaw game:
Make a Christmas jigsaw game. Gather...
Alone At Christmas
Amid the frenzy of Christmas preparations, from shopping to decorating to baking to wrapping gifts and other activities that’s part of the season’s spirit, there are many that are oblivious to Christmas.
They may have been part of the crowd at...
Five Christmas Survival Tips For The Divorced & Single Parent
For the over 50% of marriages that end in divorce, Christmas can be a hugely trying time.
Since the season is one of the most stressful times of the year anyway, this onslaught of raw emotion to the divorcee can be overwhelming. This is...
How to avoid Christmas debt overload
The Christmas season is truly the season of giving. There is no other time of the year when people's hearts are as open or their hands are as freely generous as they are during the Christmas holiday. I mean, even our favorite Christmas motto states,...
Keeping the Christmas Spirit Alive through Catalogs
We must admit that we are all catalog lovers. You might be
holding one right now or you may have looked over some online
catalog websites. We all have been hooked up with catalogs
especially women who are mad about fashion and beauty....
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What Do You Want for Christmas?
Headphones to grant me some private space . . . tickets to some far-off exotic place . . .
What do you want for Christmas?
Clothing to dress me to paint the town red . . . silk sheets to wrap me when I go to bed . . .
What do you want for Christmas?
Harry Potter’s a good one . . . the kids will go wild . . . And I love him too, ‘cause I’m really a child . . .
What do you want for Christmas?
There’s camera equipment, that’s sure to appeal . . . there’s software galore at really good deals . . .
What do you want for Christmas?
I look in my closets, I look at my house, there’s nothing I need, . . . no, not even a mouse . . .
What do you want for Christmas?
Would it matter, I wonder, if there under the tree, was a wee tiny package all wrapped up for me, and when opened, ‘twas empty, no present I’d see . . . just a feeling of peace and . . . serenity.
What do you want for Christmas?
And maybe compassion, wrapped up with a bow, a gentle enfolding so really I’d know what could and what couldn’t, what is and what ain’t.
Just some understanding. (I won’t be a saint.)
What do you want for Christmas?
It’s asking too much, now, to ask for world peace, but on my list it’s up there, that wars may soon cease. And justice, for children, that all may be fed, and wanted, and cuddled and tucked into bed.
What do you want for Christmas?
The economy needs us, or so we’ve been told . . . spending our dollars in purchases bold . . . but still, in the silence of this holy night, I know what I want most is not sold with bright lights. What I deeply need is to set aside fear, to let myself reach out in this coming year . . . to know with my heart the whole world as my kin . . . that Love may be born, and Peace may begin.
What do you want for Christmas?
© Maureen Killoran
About the Author
Maureen Killoran is a Life Coach and Unitarian minister, with a passion for helping people connect their strengths with their vision. Maureen also offers individual and group coaching, tele-support communities, and publishes a free monthly e-zine, "Seeds of Change."
You can find more details about Coach Maureen Killoran at www.spiritquestcoaching.com
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