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I'm dreaming of a Green Christmas.  Just like the ones I used to know.  Where the trees were real, and we shared a meal, and homemade gifts were really, no big deal.

I'm dreaming of a Green Christmas, where all the family was all engaged...in thoughtful discussions, and no repercussions, because all your family talk enraged...a perfect family history,

it's such a chore,
secrets now, are such a bore,
and you know you don't walk through that door.

I'm dreaming of a Green Christmas.  Where we have no family history. 
Because we need to be sure of, the earth and the cure of,
the things we have done to our future. 

Take some time to dream of a Green Christmas.  Send e-cards, and e-gifts, intentions too.

Tell the world that you love them, you are proud of them, and that they are perfect God too.

Follow this guy and lose any weight you might gain today!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I'm grateful for you!

I get to spend time with my grandson tomorrow!  I've got my house cleaned (thanks to DH for pitching in...strange how it is so much easier when he helps out!  I've got the perfect gift-craft-activity planned and I'll get the stuff tomorrow at Hobby Lobby or Michael's.  I plan on having fun and plan on making a "good memory with Nana" in my grandchild's brain.


I'm so grateful for my family.  I love them so very much and pray everyone has a wonderful time sharing gratitude on Thanksgiving day!



Don't you just love how you are in charge of your life, your plans, your outcomes?  I've been blessed with a sweet grandchild and I get to spend time with him!  I get to create with him.  I get to interact for 24 hours with him.  (OK - 8 hours of sleep are involved, but still!).  I'm so blessed.

I don't remember spending a happy time with my grandmother.  It was always SO SERIOUS with her.  She was into saving lives for Jesus and by golly, there was nothing fun or precious, or living in the moment about that.  It was all about heaven, living in the future, feeling bad about who you are right now, because, "Honey, there ain't no way you're gonna get to heaven by who you are right now. Her mind was "so set on heaven, that she was no earthly good."  She did not realize that everyone of us has a chance to hook up with "the Divine" spirit within us and make it OK.  No, she spread doom and gloom in my family.  She judged her daughter (my mother) and judged her son-in-law (my father) and pretty much preached that it was a relationship made in hell, and unless my daddy professed her faith, then their relationship was doomed and so were her grandchildren and sisters and all family.  How sad.  How non-Spiritual she saw life.  She didn't see God as a part of every human being.  She didn't see that we all have that part of ourselves that loves, lives, breathes God.  How sad it took me 55 years to realize that God was not the enemy, but God was my best friend.  How might my life had been different if my Grandmother was a Wisewoman and accepted my father as my Spiritual Father?  How might my mother have lived her life differently?  Instead of coming from a place of guilt and shame, but from a place of power and dignity and "TRUE LOVE"?

Who knows?  I just know that I love my grandson.  He's the most incredible person in the world to me.  He's smart, creative, talented, loving, kind and cute.  I wish my grandmother and mother would have seen that in me.  Oh, well.  No sense crying over spilled milk.

Go spend time with your grandchildren and bask in their loveliness.  See them through God's eyes, not your human eyes.  They are so perfect, whole, complete. Love them.  They are you!

I love you and have a wonderful weekend!