Christmas 2012
Merry Christmas everybody! It's that wonderful time of the year when the Holy Spirit sends us a little extra magic and joy. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, there are still people out here who need you. Everyone needs someone to care and help them feel loved.
We all have it within us to ease someone's burden. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word or even a smile; others need food, clothing, some help with bills, a blanket or just a night off from the kids, help with a sick family member or a simple hug for someone grieving. We all know someone to help and if not, ask around or volunteer.
I'm fixing to curl up with my granddaughter, our popcorn and a box of tissues to watch some Christmas classics. You probably think I have it made just sitting around giving out advice, but that's not quite true. I have no immune system so I can't leave home or have company; I am swimming in medical bills, I can't breathe without an oxygen tank, and am facing more surgery next week. That is a far cry from the electrician I once was. I miss my family's big get-together. I miss church.
But ... it's Christmas! The season of hope! Maybe it will snow! We have survived another insane year.
So please give, share, rekindle old friendships, call on the elderly, or hand someone a homemade card and a sandwich. Be joyous, it's Christmas!
Happy Birthday Jesus!
TERI LU WILSON MABE
Walkertown
Return
Jesus returns for his people. Satan rules now, but he knows he has only a short time.
CHRIS MITCHELL
Lexington
Final column
Lenox Rawlings’ final column for the Journal (“Time to move on; a new season beckons,” Dec. 16) was simply a further testimonial to his reputation as one of the nation’s finest sportswriters. I have read his columns since 1996 after moving into this area and have always admired the consistently high standards of his writing.
His perceptions, insights, honesty and remarkable skill with words are unsurpassed.
Wherever Rawlings winds up after “floating downstream a little ways,” I wish him good luck and Godspeed.
JACK B. LUCAS
Winston-Salem
The mainstream
Conservatives get upset with the “mainstream media” because, apparently, they don’t make enough outrageous claims about President Obama. I’m sure Time magazine choosing Obama as its Person of the Year for 2012 isn’t going to help.
But here’s the thing: Mainstream media news reporters at least try to be impartial, which is more than hard-core conservatives can even claim with straight faces. And when the mainstream media criticize the president, it’s for something real and verifiable (thus, no claims that Obama is moving the White House to Mars).
The mainstream media tend to get the basic facts right. And they’re educated, smart people, whom the most cursory examination shows to be better writers and thinkers (not to mention spellers) than their tea-party critics.
All in all, I think I’ll stick with the brand-name news sources rather than the, um, “fringes.”
MARY DAIMORE
Winston-Salem
A father’s legacy
Last week my father and I took one last tour together of Union Station. And my father, Harvey Davis, small-business owner and proprietor of Union Station for 37 years, handed over the keys to the city. He may have felt sentimental about the Grand Ol’ Gal as their time together was now limited.
And why not? They had spent every day together since he rescued her in the early 1970s. The two had much in common. They were both aging but no worse for wear; still committed to work every day despite not being at their peak of youth; and both showing tremendous grace in the light of changing times.
During a pause in the bomb shelter, we discovered a 1955 train travel log that listed people that I would never meet. The log, a bit of Winston-Salem history intact, was in pristine condition.
May my father’s time there be remembered as that of a faithful, trusted steward of Union Station. He envisioned her purposeful again when all others seemed to have been done with her. The legacy left to us, his children, will be his strong work ethic; his kind heart and generosity of spirit multiplied in spades; and yes, kindness extended to a magnificent structure because he believed it was worthy to be preserved.
For me, his daughter, my father’s legacy will extend from an intangible, indelible goodness; greater than brick and mortar and more than any eminent domain can take away.
PAMELA DAVIS
Merry Christmas to All.
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ReplyDeleteAnd filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
___Clement Moore, 1823
First "book" I ever read and memorized...off soon to the orphans Christmas feast.
It won't be long until liberals completely ruin 'Christmas'. They've already got a good start on it.
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Ho Ho Ho.....Merry Christmas liberals!