An Advent Meditation

I don't know where or how I ever came across this meditation, but I think it expresses so much!

This Christmas ...

Mend a quarrel

Seek out a forgotten friend

Share some treasure

Give a soft answer

Encourage youth

Keep a promise

Find the time

Listen

Apologize if you were wrong

Be gentle

Laugh a little

Laugh a little more

Express your gratitude

Welcome a stranger

Gladden the heart of a child

Take pleasure in the beauty of the earth

Speak your love

Speak it again

Speak it still once again


Take Time for Ten Things

Take time to Work ... it's the price of success.

Take time to Think ... it's the source of power.

Take time to Play ... it's the secret of youth.

Take time to Read ... it's the foundation of knowledge.

Take time to Worship ... it's the highway of reverance and
washes the dust of the earth from our eyes.

Take time to Help and Enjoy Friends ... it's the source of happiness.

Take time to Love ... it's one sacrament of life.

Take time to Dream ... it hitches the soul to the stars.

Take time to Laugh ... it's the singing that helps with life's loads.

Take time to Plan ... it's the secret of being able to have time to take time for the first nine things!