Holiday Greetings From Jim Walberg & His Family
December 23, 2008 by Jim Walberg · Leave a Comment
Our family sends you Holiday greetings and best wishes for 2008!
This is the time of year that all of us spend time 
with family and friends, and remembering the many blessings that we receive each day. One of my wishes for you today is that it is not a time that is only focused on a few days in December, but actually everyday. There are so many grateful moments that we need to pay attention to each day! There are people to love, to serve, and even to just listen to that will improve whatever condition they are in. There is a quote I really like, “If you are wondering if your mission in life is complete, it is not if you are still alive.” Below is a prayer that we will be using at our Holiday celebration dinner. Make a copy of it and review it from time to time. It means a lot to us.
Dear God, this is the Season of getting together with our loved ones; feast, toast, enjoy the blessings of life – and give thanks. Thanks for life all around us, under foot, and overhead.
Thanks for the ability to remember the things that we love as well as to forget how much we’ve been hurt. Thanks for fine young bodies and old, venerable minds; for sun on our faces, the rain on the roof, and the food on the table grown by 
people we don’t even know. Â
Thanks that the jets overhead aren’t dropping their bombs, that our healing hands have a place to practice, that children are born every minute of the day, and that death is there to gather us up at the end. And thanks for at least a few days a year when we all take the time to get some perspective.
We send you our very best wishes for a wonderful Holiday Season with your dear family and friends! We are in a time in history that is allow all of us to rediscover what is truly important in our lives. It is certainly not “things”. It is our relationship to each other and to humanity. If you have a “loaf of bread” this Season, be sure to give a slice. Until next time…
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