... is my two front teeth, Oops, that's another song!!
What I want for Christmas is LAUGHTER.....
What I want for Christmas is Grandpa Walton's Christmas Wish.....
What I want for Christmas is for wishes and dreams to come true.....
What I want for Christmas is for others to LIVE, LOVE, and LAUGH because they are so overwhelmed by GOD's Love, which was revealed to us in the BESTEST, MOST PERFECT GIFT that has ever been given.....
What I want for Christmas is "A Sunrise Gift"
(December 11 entry in God Calling)
To those whose lives have been full of struggle and care, who have felt the tragedy of living, the pity of an agonized heart for Jesus' poor world... to those followers of HIS, HE gives Peace and Joy that brings to age its second Spring, the youth sacrificed for HIM, and for HIS world....
Take each day now as a joyous sunrise gift from JESUS. Your simple daily tasks done in HIS Strength and Love will bring the consciousness of all your highest hopes. Expect great things. Expect great things. This coming year....
Monday, December 22, 2008
My Christmas Wish...
I have always liked Amy Grant's song, "Grown Up Christmas List", but the other morning on the way to work Klove played a Christmas Wish by Grandpa Walton.
Anyone remember the Walton's? Well, as I was listening to the words of Grandpa Walton's Christmas Message or Wish tears formed in my eyes and I was so moved. I met GOD right there in the moment and saw HIM while looking towards the beautiful mountains where I live.
I have tried my hardest to find a link online to the audio of it because I believe that is the best way to hear it, in his own voice. However, all that I could find was a list of the lyrics so to speak. So what I share with you now is those words:
Grandpa's Christmas Message
What is Christmas? It is a time when some of your dreams come true. Every year it roles around and takes you by surprise some of the time, especially when you’re as close to a 100 years old as I am. You think...it Can’t be time for another one, but there it is with all it’s hope and joy and the promise of the wishes granted. I bet you wonder what I wish for. What could an old man wish for? Maybe you think I would wish to be young again. I don’t want that. Being young is a painful thing. Being young and in love to boot, which most young people are, is even more agony. I’ll tell you what I wish. I’d wish for the power to return some of the love that’s been given me. I’d wish the time and place for all that giving could be commemorated like the heart I carved on the tree around your Grandmother’s and my initials. I wish too for more days to my life. Time...time to give to children some of the beauty of this Earth that has been revealed to me. A drop of water is a wondrous thing.
A spade full of earth is a kingdom in itself. A cloud is worth watching as it passes from one horizon to another. A bird building its nest is as wondrous as men building the Pyramid, and any green thing that grows is proof that God exists. It all comes into focus at Christmas. It is a tender time. We grow cautious because we open ourselves to love. We exchange gifts, but what those presents really say is "I love you." It makes some folks uncomfortable to say or hear these words. Maybe it’s because they’ve never learned the secret of the given heart. There are more takers than givers in the world. People, communities even countries spending their time grubbing and rooting for the goods of this earth like pigs after acorns in the Fall of the year. This is a country with a given heart and I pray it will always be so. It’s a good country and it’s part of our strength, something that we brought with us as pioneers that we can share with the fellow who is down on his luck, with those who suffered calamities: with the loss of their homes or land or their hope. This is a family with a giving heart. You children may squabble and bicker among yourselves but you’ve been taught to love and to give, and that’s the greatest present your Momma and Daddy could have given you. So take pleasure in the trappings of Christmas. Be merry like the songs say. Revel in the tinsel and the glitter and the sparkle and sing the old songs for all the joy that’s in them and the memories they bring back. But to touch the real Christmas, to feel the true spirit of the season, look to your own heart and find all the secret treasures that they’re there to give. There is one wish that I make every year. I never said it aloud before, but I’ll tell it to you now. I wish for all the seasons I have known, endlessly to come and go; the dogwood Spring, the watermelon Summer, the russet and gold of Autumn. I wish for Christmas to come again and for each of us to be here again next year at this time...together, safe, warm and loved as we are at this moment.
Read by Will Geer on "The Walton’s Christmas" Album
What an amazing Christmas Wish!! MeRrY ChRiStMaS and HaPpY BiRtHdAy JESUS!!!!
Anyone remember the Walton's? Well, as I was listening to the words of Grandpa Walton's Christmas Message or Wish tears formed in my eyes and I was so moved. I met GOD right there in the moment and saw HIM while looking towards the beautiful mountains where I live.
I have tried my hardest to find a link online to the audio of it because I believe that is the best way to hear it, in his own voice. However, all that I could find was a list of the lyrics so to speak. So what I share with you now is those words:
Grandpa's Christmas Message
What is Christmas? It is a time when some of your dreams come true. Every year it roles around and takes you by surprise some of the time, especially when you’re as close to a 100 years old as I am. You think...it Can’t be time for another one, but there it is with all it’s hope and joy and the promise of the wishes granted. I bet you wonder what I wish for. What could an old man wish for? Maybe you think I would wish to be young again. I don’t want that. Being young is a painful thing. Being young and in love to boot, which most young people are, is even more agony. I’ll tell you what I wish. I’d wish for the power to return some of the love that’s been given me. I’d wish the time and place for all that giving could be commemorated like the heart I carved on the tree around your Grandmother’s and my initials. I wish too for more days to my life. Time...time to give to children some of the beauty of this Earth that has been revealed to me. A drop of water is a wondrous thing.
A spade full of earth is a kingdom in itself. A cloud is worth watching as it passes from one horizon to another. A bird building its nest is as wondrous as men building the Pyramid, and any green thing that grows is proof that God exists. It all comes into focus at Christmas. It is a tender time. We grow cautious because we open ourselves to love. We exchange gifts, but what those presents really say is "I love you." It makes some folks uncomfortable to say or hear these words. Maybe it’s because they’ve never learned the secret of the given heart. There are more takers than givers in the world. People, communities even countries spending their time grubbing and rooting for the goods of this earth like pigs after acorns in the Fall of the year. This is a country with a given heart and I pray it will always be so. It’s a good country and it’s part of our strength, something that we brought with us as pioneers that we can share with the fellow who is down on his luck, with those who suffered calamities: with the loss of their homes or land or their hope. This is a family with a giving heart. You children may squabble and bicker among yourselves but you’ve been taught to love and to give, and that’s the greatest present your Momma and Daddy could have given you. So take pleasure in the trappings of Christmas. Be merry like the songs say. Revel in the tinsel and the glitter and the sparkle and sing the old songs for all the joy that’s in them and the memories they bring back. But to touch the real Christmas, to feel the true spirit of the season, look to your own heart and find all the secret treasures that they’re there to give. There is one wish that I make every year. I never said it aloud before, but I’ll tell it to you now. I wish for all the seasons I have known, endlessly to come and go; the dogwood Spring, the watermelon Summer, the russet and gold of Autumn. I wish for Christmas to come again and for each of us to be here again next year at this time...together, safe, warm and loved as we are at this moment.
Read by Will Geer on "The Walton’s Christmas" Album
What an amazing Christmas Wish!! MeRrY ChRiStMaS and HaPpY BiRtHdAy JESUS!!!!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
What....
I want for Christmas this year.... Well, it 'caused me to look back and think about two years ago at this time and for that matter I thought about four years....
Four years ago, I was packing to spend this time with my littlest sister in Australia.... I dream of a lifetime!
Two years ago, I was wanting a phone call as my gift... not my usually asking, but what I wanted. I got it and then I prepared to spend this holiday in Bali, while on another dream come true.
So I reflect... I'd really love to ask for another wish, dream to come true. Earlier this year, I thought it just might. I thought that I might actually get the one wish for Christmas that I have been asking for for a long, long time. But, it doesn't look like I will get that wish this year.
BUT, what I want is to Live, Love, and most importantly Laugh fully and abundantly as I began to during the beginning of this decade in my life.
Interesting thing is is hearing these words in a song on the radio. It is a new one by Point of Grace.... Kind of just sums a bit up of how I am feeling at this particular moment in time.
The Lyrics to "I Wish" are:
I wish I didn't feel so helpless
I wish I didn't act so selfish
I wish I didn't wring my hands night and day
My hair was a little bit smoother
My jeans fit a little bit looser
And I always knew the right things to say
And I wish I wouldn't hide what?s been going on inside
And I wish you wouldn't get scared and run away
Chorus
I wish I was doing better
With all the things that matter,
I guess I got some learning to do
I wish everyone had someone
To hold em and to love em
The way I'm always gonna love you
I wish wishes came true
I was there was a cure for cancer
I wish somebody had an answer
And all God's children, never got hurt
I wish Eve never bit that apple
You men never went to battle
And I didn't get so mad at the world
I wish I was more like Jesus
And could pick up all the pieces
And make a better life for my baby girl
Chorus
I wish I was doing better
With all the things that matter,
I guess I got some learning to do
I wish everyone had someone
To hold em and to love em
The way I'm always gonna love you
I wish wishes came true
For everything I am wishing
I know GOD is up there listening
So, I say my prayers when I go to bed
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Oh pray my wishes come true
Oh
Chorus
I wish I was doing better
With all the things that matter,
I guess I got some learning to do
I wish everyone had someone
To hold em and to love em
The way I'm always gonna love you
I wish wishes came true
I know wishes come true
I wish, I wish
Four years ago, I was packing to spend this time with my littlest sister in Australia.... I dream of a lifetime!
Two years ago, I was wanting a phone call as my gift... not my usually asking, but what I wanted. I got it and then I prepared to spend this holiday in Bali, while on another dream come true.
So I reflect... I'd really love to ask for another wish, dream to come true. Earlier this year, I thought it just might. I thought that I might actually get the one wish for Christmas that I have been asking for for a long, long time. But, it doesn't look like I will get that wish this year.
BUT, what I want is to Live, Love, and most importantly Laugh fully and abundantly as I began to during the beginning of this decade in my life.
Interesting thing is is hearing these words in a song on the radio. It is a new one by Point of Grace.... Kind of just sums a bit up of how I am feeling at this particular moment in time.
The Lyrics to "I Wish" are:
I wish I didn't feel so helpless
I wish I didn't act so selfish
I wish I didn't wring my hands night and day
My hair was a little bit smoother
My jeans fit a little bit looser
And I always knew the right things to say
And I wish I wouldn't hide what?s been going on inside
And I wish you wouldn't get scared and run away
Chorus
I wish I was doing better
With all the things that matter,
I guess I got some learning to do
I wish everyone had someone
To hold em and to love em
The way I'm always gonna love you
I wish wishes came true
I was there was a cure for cancer
I wish somebody had an answer
And all God's children, never got hurt
I wish Eve never bit that apple
You men never went to battle
And I didn't get so mad at the world
I wish I was more like Jesus
And could pick up all the pieces
And make a better life for my baby girl
Chorus
I wish I was doing better
With all the things that matter,
I guess I got some learning to do
I wish everyone had someone
To hold em and to love em
The way I'm always gonna love you
I wish wishes came true
For everything I am wishing
I know GOD is up there listening
So, I say my prayers when I go to bed
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Oh pray my wishes come true
Oh
Chorus
I wish I was doing better
With all the things that matter,
I guess I got some learning to do
I wish everyone had someone
To hold em and to love em
The way I'm always gonna love you
I wish wishes came true
I know wishes come true
I wish, I wish
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Praise....
I am feeling alive again. I have longed for a while now to Love, Live, and Laugh again. And though I don't quit feel that I am through the desert yet, I have found a small oasis for the moment.
I have been hearing and experiencing GOD more powerfully lately. I read something and it hits home, or touches my heart. Feels like GOD speaking again.
I recently read this in a book, "I know that if it seems the Lord is not speaking or moving, it's just a cycle, and when He's ready, He'll be there.
I am beginning to feel that Life, Love, and Laughter again in my heart and soul. And it all has to do with HIM!!
Praise Jesus!!
I have been hearing and experiencing GOD more powerfully lately. I read something and it hits home, or touches my heart. Feels like GOD speaking again.
I recently read this in a book, "I know that if it seems the Lord is not speaking or moving, it's just a cycle, and when He's ready, He'll be there.
I am beginning to feel that Life, Love, and Laughter again in my heart and soul. And it all has to do with HIM!!
Praise Jesus!!
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