Good Morning , and what a wonderfully day we can have if we let it happen.
Sometimes we get caught up in material values so we do not see the gifts we have and can share with others. That is our gift God has given us to help each day.
It may seem that we don't have much or the ability but that is where you and I are wrong.
We have so much to be thankfully for and to share.
Right now are you warm inside your home and you have had good food in your tummy. Your clothes are clean and you have some little aches , that's ok.
Think, right now if that was gone just for a second or two.
What if, you had no home or place to feel safe.
No food to keep the hunger away or the ways to feel that hunger.
No bed to lay your head down at night and feel the warmpth of sleep.
No school for education for your children, No job .
Yes I know we complain about our job and its demands.
Think if your job was gone or an accident took that away from you.
With a job we feel worthwhile and self worth ,don t we know?
Its not who you are, but what you do for a living that gives us many things.
The satisfaction of who we are and are status of what is accomplished.
What if there was suddenly none or the years advanced quickly for us.
Picture the elder man sitting in a wheel chair and we don't see him.
He was the man that gave so much for our country and so many sacrifices , to many to tell.
He was the farmer that kept us fed or the factory worker that went silently to his job every day and never missed a day, the man that went through the Great Depression .
Working from sunrise to sunset and walking miles to care for his family.
Do we see that when we look at him? Be truthfully now, do You?
Or do you see an old man in a wheel chair or someone who has had a disease rob him
of his dignity or his mind ravaged by dementia.
No longer the man he was , just a shell for us to see and wonder.
His family comes to visit him and not aware of who they are,
tries to cope with no memory of even the events of the day.
But he remembers long ago to a happier time when he was young.
Your gift share it with the elderly, they are our past and future.
The memories they share don't let it be kept silent.
Give and share your time, that all it takes.
You will unfold a friendship that will touch your heart.
So as we look at the day of Chists celebration of his birth , or the miracle of Hanaka.
The Queen said it so well in her chat with the world yesterday.
That the elders always kept the young to steer the course and to help that
they become caring and good for the nation.
Their energy is challenged and led in the right direction.
The peace of the heart where ever you are and the start soon of a brand new year.
Nancy Macdonald
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