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 | | From: | Judith McRae | | Subject: | A "Corinthians" Christmas | | Date: | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:34:10 GMT |
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 | I found this: I'm not sure who originally wrote it.
1 Cor.13 (Christmas version)
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling
lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I'm just
another decorator.
If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of cookies, preparing
gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but
do not show love to my family, I'm just another cook.
If I work at the soup kitchen, sing carols in the nursing home and give
all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it
profits me nothing.
If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes,
attend myriad holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata, but do
not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.
Love stops the cooking to hug the child. Love sets aside the decorating
to kiss the husband. Love is kind, though harried and tired. Love
doesn't envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china and
table linens. Love doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way, but
is thankful they are there to be in the way. Love doesn't give only to
those who are able to give in return, but rejoices in giving to those
who can't. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never fails.
Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will
rust, but giving the gift of love will endure.
Merry Christmas, everyone!!
Love from Judith
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Judith Teresa's News of the World is at http://members.shaw.ca/jrlmcrae/
"The shortest distance between two minds is a figure of speech."
- Mark Shea
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| | From: | CATHY921 | | Subject: | Re: A "Corinthians" Christmas | | Date: | Wed, 4 Jan 2005 21:31:51 GMT |
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| her alone.
- At the age of six, boys and girls are essentially the same. The
difference is that boys tend to remain at the mental age of six
throughout life, while girls seem to regress.
- Women need to feel compassion for others because weakness in others
justifies their own weakness.
- Women always have some mental reservations. This is because most of
their brains are out of bounds to them.
- Women lust to be misunderstood.
- A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
- Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten
so easily.
- A woman wears her tears like jewelry.
- She was on the verge of tears, her favourite perch.
- You know women - there's always something bothering them.
- Self-pity is one of the last things that any woman surrenders.
- When he has a thorn in his side, she has to have a sword through her
heart.
- A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity.
It is her favourite form of self-indulgence.
- Regret is a woman's natural food - she thrives upon it.
- My a
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| | From: | Judith McRae | | Subject: | Re: A "Corinthians" Christmas | | Date: | Sat, 01 Jan 2005 19:09:40 GMT |
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| Hi, Gran!
Well, I hope you're having a happy day, anyway. :-)
Paul told us to celebrate days, or not celebrate them, according to our
conscience.
I like the idea of putting a day aside each year for celebrating
Christ's coming into the world. It doesn't really matter to me that it
isn't the "right" day, since we don't actually know what day Jesus was
born.
The day that the sun returns to the world after a period of darkness
seems fitting enough to me, since Jesus is the Light of the World in a
way that even the sun can't compete with. If the pagans were using that
day for something else, we can take the opportunity to teach them about
Jesus on that day, and hey! We can *still* have a party! :-D (Hey, maybe
that Pope wasn't so dumb, after all!!)
But I won't make anyone who doesn't want to join me.
Happy New Year!! :-)
Love from Judith
CATHY921 wrote:
> LOVE KNOWS NO SEASON!
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> Xmas is a pagan holiday to begin with..
> Christ was not born on Dec. 25 (which was decreed as His birthday by a Roman
> Catholic Pope many years after Christ was born, died, and rose again. The Pope
> picked the day of heathen sun worshippers and it was all a lie to begin with.
> Many more have been added by Satan, the father of lies, e.g. Santa Claus,
> decorated trees, etc.etc., and it is now commercial and religious Babylon with
> a lot of Big Babies propagating these lies to their children).
>
> Man cannot "put Christ into Christmas".
> The last place God let man put Him was on a cruel cross! God shall now do the
> "putting"!
> Your message was good in stressing love,
> but true and holy love is not a mixture of truth and error.. It is absolutely
> pure and clean, separate from sinners.. Christ was!
> The Truth, the Way, and the Life is still hated! No, I'm not a false so-called
> Jeehovah's Witness. I am just a sinner, who loves Christ as my Savior and
> Lord.
> gran
>
>
--
Judith Teresa's News of the World is at http://members.shaw.ca/jrlmcrae/
"The shortest distance between two minds is a figure of speech."
- Mark Shea
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| | From: | CATHY921 | | Subject: | Re: A "Corinthians" Christmas | | Date: | Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:50:16 GMT |
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| LOVE KNOWS NO SEASON!
Xmas is a pagan holiday to begin with..
Christ was not born on Dec. 25 (which was decreed as His birthday by a Roman
Catholic Pope many years after Christ was born, died, and rose again. The Pope
picked the day of heathen sun worshippers and it was all a lie to begin with.
Many more have been added by Satan, the father of lies, e.g. Santa Claus,
decorated trees, etc.etc., and it is now commercial and religious Babylon with
a lot of Big Babies propagating these lies to their children).
Man cannot "put Christ into Christmas".
The last place God let man put Him was on a cruel cross! God shall now do the
"putting"!
Your message was good in stressing love,
but true and holy love is not a mixture of truth and error.. It is absolutely
pure and clean, separate from sinners.. Christ was!
The Truth, the Way, and the Life is still hated! No, I'm not a false so-called
Jeehovah's Witness. I am just a sinner, who loves Christ as my Savior and
Lord.
gran
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| | From: | Judith McRae | | Subject: | Re: A "Corinthians" Christmas | | Date: | Wed, 4 Jan 2005 20:39:42 GMT |
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| is, in a
certain sense, left out of consideration, and her coquetry invalidated,
by the superciliousness of the noble lady who would smile if anyone
alluded to any relation existing between her and her dressmaker. When
visited in her negligee, she conceals herself, thus displaying her
charms by this very concealment. In my shop she exposes her charms with
the utmost nonchalance, for he is only a dressmaker - and she is a
woman. Now, her shawl slips down and bares some part of her body, and if
I did not know what that means and what she expects, my reputation would
be gone to the winds. Now, she draws herself up, a priori fashion; now
she gesticulates a posteriori; now, she sways to and fro in her hips;
now, she looks at herself in the mirror and sees my admiring phiz behind
her in the glass; now, she minces her words; now, she trips along with
short steps; now, she hovers; now, she draws her foot after her in
slovenly fashion; now, she lets herself sink softly into an armchair,
whilst I with humble demeanor offer her a flask of smelling salts and
with my adoration assuage her agitation; now, she strikes after me
playfully; now, she drops her handkerchief and, without as much as a
single motion, lets her relaxed arm remain in its pendant position
whilst I bend down low to pick it up and return it to her, receiving a
little patronizing nod as a reward. These are the ways of a lady of
fashion when in my shop. Whether Diogenes made any impression on the
woman who was praying in a somewhat unbecoming posture when he asked her
whether she did not believe the gods could see her from behind - that I
do not know; but this I do know, that if I should say to her ladyship
kneeling down in church: "The folds of your
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| | From: | Bible Wisdom | | Subject: | Re: A "Corinthians" Christmas | | Date: | Wed, 4 Jan 2005 19:47:02 GMT |
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| - When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their
reasons are always different.
- Man's conclusions are reached by toil. Woman arrives at the same by
sympathy.
- A woman's thoughts are afterthoughts.
- The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their
folly than their reason.
- A woman can believe anything in the world if there's no good reason
for it.
- Can you recall a woman who ever showed you with pride her library?
- Whether Women are equal to Men in their intellectual Capacity, or not:
If the Business of the Mind were nothing more than to contrive a Dress;
to invent a new Fashion; to set off a bad Face; to heighten the Charms
of a good one; to understand the Economy of a Tea-Table; to manage an
Intrigue; to conduct a Game at Quadrille, and to lay out new Plans of
Pleasure, Pride and Luxury; then Women must be own'd to have a Capacity
not only equal but even superior to us. But as the Understanding of Man
has infinitely higher Objects to employ its Speculations on, Objects
beyond the very Aim of the ablest Women; their intellectual Faculties
are so evidently inferior to his, that I should think it an Impertinence
in me to take up any Time to prove it. Need we look any farther than
their soft, simpering, silly Faces to fathom the perceptible Depth of
their Understandings? View the whole Sex round:
Eternal Smiles their Emptiness betray
As shallow Streams run dimpling all the way. (Pope)
A thoughtless Stare, a
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| | From: | Bible Wisdom | | Subject: | Re: A "Corinthians" Christmas | | Date: | Sun, 02 Jan 2005 18:30:06 GMT |
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"CATHY921" wrote in message
news:IAUAd.2281$Cc.892@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> LOVE KNOWS NO SEASON!
>
> Xmas is a pagan holiday to begin with..
> Christ was not born on Dec. 25 (which was decreed as His birthday by a
Roman
> Catholic Pope many years after Christ was born, died, and rose again. The
Pope
> picked the day of heathen sun worshippers and it was all a lie to begin
with.
> Many more have been added by Satan, the father of lies, e.g. Santa Claus,
> decorated trees, etc.etc., and it is now commercial and religious Babylon
with
> a lot of Big Babies propagating these lies to their children).
>
> Man cannot "put Christ into Christmas".
> The last place God let man put Him was on a cruel cross! God shall now do
the
> "putting"!
> Your message was good in stressing love,
> but true and holy love is not a mixture of truth and error.. It is
absolutely
> pure and clean, separate from sinners.. Christ was!
> The Truth, the Way, and the Life is still hated! No, I'm not a false
so-called
> Jeehovah's Witness. I am just a sinner, who loves Christ as my Savior and
> Lord.
> gran
Amen.....so few have understanding of such a paganised festival.
The Apostles never commanded adherence to Christ's birthday....only in his
death....in the breaking of bread.
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