Hi everyone, this blog is from the heart and I hope you can join in and share with me. There were some beautiful ladies in Miami Shores and the surrounding communities that would organize a Christmas Coffee every year on the first week of December. They would have a couple of women talk about a life changing experience and how they had found God. When I first heard about it I was a little skeptical but that all changed when I attended my first one. The whole point of the coffee was to help you focus on the things that really matter, to help you realize the true meaning of Christmas, and to put things in perspective. Although they have not had a Christmas Coffee in a couple of years, I still sit down to reflect every year.
Right after Thanksgiving many of us start running like crazy making holiday gift lists, going to the mall, shopping on-line, getting our nails and hair done for holiday parties, buying holiday attire for those parties, getting lights, trees and decorations up, organizing parties of our own - IT'S MADDENING!!
This year was no different, except, as many of you know, my dad had been diagnosed with cancer 8 months before and he was having surgery on December 4th. The great news is that my dad is officially in Remission. What better Christmas gift than that could I have ever wished for?
My dad is not a very religious man, but everyone I know has been offering prayers for him. On the day of his first operation, he grabbed my hand before going into the O.R. and said - "Please pray for me". As I am writing this, I have tears in my eyes, because I had never heard my dad say that. I thank you all for the beautiful wishes, I thank you all for the prayers, and most of all, I thank God for giving me the best gift ever.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU......and have faith.......reflect on your good fortune.......reflect on what surrounds you......take the time to look around and realize how blessed we really are.
Dear Rick and Ines,
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