Have a Holy Contemplative Sunday

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Good Sunday Morning Sweet Friends,

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Hope this finds you well rested and unstressed.

I know you are thinking...........she is joking, right??

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Actually, I am sort of.........but I really am hoping

you are able to enjoy this wonderful season of

the year and get done what you have to with

joy and peace in your heart.

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We have been wrapping gifts last night and

 tonight and watching movies as we did,

so that made it fun!

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We are finished (Yea) and have it under the tree

and got the stuff put away and the dining room table back

 to normal!  We did some smokin' work on that,  but we

are happy to be done,  but yet we did enjoy it too!

I thank the Lord for my husband and all his help,

 he is such a blessing. Like the ole saying goes,

Many hands make the work light.

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Now I can start turning my attention to food and tableware.

  I already know what I am making.  I have 3 meals to

prepare for,  Christmas Eve will be our traditional Christmas

 dinner cause my daughter has to work Christmas Day

from 3-11p.m,  so we are having her favorite dinner then,

 and Christmas morning we always have a brunch and

then Christmas dinner in the evening.

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I made Lasagna and some Banana macadamia bread

to freeze for christmas dinner and brunch.  I have

never made that Banana macadamia bread before,

 it sure looked and smells good,  so hope it taste as good

as it looked! Saw the recipe in Family cirlce I think it was.

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My header pic is taken from a sofa pillow that I got

 some years back..... it  just looks like just a snowman scene

but  if you look closely,  it is a manger scene .......... don't you

just love it,  I think it is so precious!

Makes me smile anyway!

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I will leave you now with some verses

from Luke 2: 6&7

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While they were there (In Bethlehem), the time came

 for the baby to be born,

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 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.  She wrapped

 him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there

was no room for them in the inn.

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This Holy event...........how amazing it was that God

stepped out of heaven to come here to this earth

for our sakes!

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Oh, How He loves You and Me!

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Contemplate that for awhile as you are

wrapping or cooking or whatever you

have left to do!

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Merry Christmas!

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Love, Peace and Joy to you, My Friends,

Nellie