The Stone House: Real Meaning of Christmas

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Real Meaning of Christmas

Carpe diem.......Seize The Day

1 comment:

Julie Harward said...: I loved this one too. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas...thanks for your visit...and Happy New Year to you! :D; December 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM

Me Too ♥♥♥

I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. ~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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