Category Archives: Poetry

Christmas Thoughts

December 14, 2009 – 6:09 pm

Christmas Holiday Thoughts
“Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
And on goes the story about Christmas Eve,
And the jolly old man whom we believe.
Have you even wondered how Santa came to be -
So important to Christmas – and to you and to me?
Well, it all [...]

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A Christmas Meditation

November 30, 2009 – 8:50 pm

Give us through the coming year
QUIETNESS of MIND,
Teach us to be PATIENT
and always to be KIND,
Give us REASSURANCE
When everything goes wrong
So our FAITH remains unfaltering
And our HOPE and COURAGE strong–
And show us that in QUIETNESS
We can feel Your Presence near
Filling us with JOY and PEACE
Throughout the coming year.
by Helen Steiner Rice

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Freedom is Not Free

July 1, 2009 – 2:40 pm

A Patriotic Wish – For All American Heroes
I’d Like to be the sort of man the flag could boast about;
I’d like to be the sort of man it cannot live without;
I’d like to be the type of man that really is American;
The head erect, and shoulders square, clean-minded fellow, just and fair,
That all men [...]

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Life and Death

January 28, 2009 – 11:55 am

On Tuesday January 27 – 2009 our dear neighbor was diagnosed with acute Leukemia, he passed away Friday January 30 – 2009. Shock is the only way to describe how you feel with that kind of news.   You wake up the next day and wonder if you had a  bad dream, how can [...]

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