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Joy is in the air...it’s December...Christmas will soon be here...the excited anticipation of
watching children is joy within itself... I love to watch their faces and wish I could know what is pass-
ing through their minds. I suspect the expressions are pretty close to the thoughts. My friend told me
the other day that her three year old was so excited to know that Christmas was Jesus’ birthday that
she could not wait to go to ―school‖ and tell her teacher...now to just remember that is what the joy is
all about.
Gee what an interesting year 2010 has been, one filled with many changes, some great, and
others I could have done without, but as I walked through those valleys with my brightly tabbed
Bible leading me immediately to verses of healing and hope, I captured incredible peace. Therefore, I
had a swift recovery from chest surgery to remove a mass from behind my breastbone and one in my
lung. Credit for my swift recovery is also attributed to my prayer warriors—and to my wonderful
nurse— Jack took such good care of me. In fact, I thought I was ready to go after about 10 days—but
the nursing police, as I lovingly dubbed my care-giver, reigned me in. He was right...as he always is.
In anticipation of a new year and new beginnings , I’m giving life to an old dream that I put
on a shelf a couple years ago. It will take me a while to get all my thoughts back together, but it is
worth the commitment to use my creative energies to accomplish. Do you have a dream that you let
go by the wayside for one reason or another? I encourage you to rekindle the desire. I’m believing
―it can happen‖. I’m going to live LARGE….join me...
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, The gladness of Christmas give you hope, the warmth
of Christmas grant you love...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Nan
“An apple a day…” may be true, but
some health lore isn’t
Happy Anniversary Everyone knows that you shouldn’t swim within an
hour after eating, a glass of warm milk helps you
To You! fall asleep, and doctors always save the patient right
before the last commercial. Right?
Maybe, but you’re right to be skeptical.
Many common beliefs about health don’t hold up to
Joe & Genie Wilson clinical research (and once in a while a TV patient
Dennis & Darla Bierig dies). In the winter months, although you do need to
Jeremy & Kari McCarley dress warmly, you don’t need to worry about these
often repeated words of advice:
Randall & Sonja Sauter Don’t go outside with damp hair. Your head
Justin & Jessica Calvarese will get chilly, but chances are you won’t catch a
Don & Carol Stewart cold. Colds are caused by viruses (over 200),
Michael & Cindy Boecking and most people contract them by coming into
contact with someone who already has a cold
Todd & Ronda Little People may tend to catch cold more readily dur-
ing the winter because they’re inside more, and
closer to other people who may carry the virus–
not simply because the weather is cold.
Congratulations!!! Feed a cold, starve a fever. Or is it the other
way around? Whatever the saying is, you don’t
want to avoid eating when you’re sick (even if
you don’t feel much like it) because your body
needs the nutrients to fight infection. Drinking
plenty of fluids and getting lots of rest are the
National Tie Month. Celebrate most dependable ways to get well quickly.
the necktie, especially because 20 You lose 75 percent of your body heat
percent of all neckties are purchased through your head. You’ll lose heat through
in December, presumably as holi- whatever part of your body is exposed to cold
day gifts. Fashion tip, from proto- temperatures—head, hands, arms, legs, etc.
col expert Nemo Turner: The Yes, keep your head covered when outdoors in
proper length for wearing the every- the winter, but keep the rest of your body warm
day ―long tie,‖ whether it is for as well.
business or social events, is that it
must go just to the bottom of the
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The history of Christmas customs god of the harvest by making a pot of porridge and stir-
What are the original means of some of our most ring it for him. Later plum pudding was made by adding
beloved Christmas customs? Many of these customs prunes to the porridge, and that evolved into what we
originated in older pagan traditions, rather than in the now know as Christmas pudding. Tradition says that
Christian tradition in which they are celebrated. each member of the family should stir the pot in an east-
The celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 was not west manner (as the sun moves across the sky). Flaming
regulated to that date until the fourth century by Pope brandy poured onto the pudding is also a symbol of the
Saint Julius I. The Pope, it seems, was trying to round sun’s energy.
up a passel of pagan festivities into one date and took the The first Christmas stocking was derived from
opportunity to turn them into a Christian celebration. the charity of a kindly Turkish bishop, who slipped a bag
Dec. 25 previously had marked the Roman Saturnalia of gold into the stocking of a girl in need of a dowry.
(the day when the sun ebbed lowest in the year). Mithra, And it’s true that Santa never wore red and white
the Persian Sun god, had his birthday then, too. And until he was popularized by the Coca-Cola Company
Odin, a Norse god, also appeared to the world on that wearing the company colors.
day. Decorating Christmas trees has its origins in the
Overeating and drinking are related to the Satur- Dark Ages of Germany, the idea being to encourage tree
nalia. Saturn, an agriculture god, was related to feasting spirits, who deserted the forests during the winter, to
in tahe winter, a practice that in ancient times would want to return to the trees to reawaken them again in the
have been important to help people survive the long, spring. This originally focused on oak trees, but later
sometimes famine-ridden winters. came to be associated with fir trees by the Christians,
Today’s Christmas pudding has a long history because they likened the triangle outline of the firs with
going all the way back to the Celts, who celebrated their that of the Holy Trinity.—- adapted from the New
Statesman
December History: 1. In Montgomery, Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her
seat in the front section of a bus (1955). 7. Martin Van Buren becomes the 8th President of the
United States, and the first president to be born in this country. 7. Thomas Edison exhibited the
phonograph in 1877. 10. Wyoming, a territory of the U.S, allowed women to vote and hold of-
fice (1869). 15. Gone With the Wind premiered in where else, but Atlanta, Georgia (1939). 19.
Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol (1843). 24. Franz Joseph Gruber composed
―Silent Night‖ (1818). 25. Jesus Christ is born in a little town in Bethlehem (0).
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