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To help get you in the mood for ...

6 December 2007

WASSUP - Open up your thesaurus

Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, incense and myrrh.

Mtt 2:11

In my reading this week I discovered that the word "treasures" is the word from which we get the word thesaurus, which means "store house" or "treasury".

You are a thesaurus!

You are a treasure

You are a store house of blessings for others

Open up

An open heart leads to an open hand

Andrew

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INSIGHT OUT - Blue Christmas

Blue Christmas is a term for those who find Christmas is accompanied by a flood of memories of sadness, of loss, grief and pain.

If that's you or you know someone who's having a blue Christmas, this one is for you.

God help us
if our world should grow dark
and there is no way of seeing or knowing
grant us courage and trust
to touch and be touched
to find our way onwards
by feeling

amen

Leunig

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OUTSIGHT IN - To help get you in the mood for ...

... giving

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you." - John Bunyon

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving." - Albert Einstein

"The only gift is a portion of thyself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness." - Ray Lyman Wilbur

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers." - Seneca

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Etienne de Grelle

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SEE YA SUNDAY - Generosity - The gift that never ends

Would you like some help with your Christmas shopping?

This Sunday morning I'll be offering some very practical and down to earth ideas on the kind of gifts that will be a great hit this year.

This week at 8.30am and 10.30am - Generosity - The gift that never ends

CANVAS this Sunday evening with Matt and the crew at 6.30pm in the foyer.

Can't wait ... see ya Sunday

Thanks for this time to chat.

Andrew
St Columba
Where Life and Faith Meet
andrew.norton@stcolumba.org.nz

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LAST WORD - Immortality

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others in the world remains and is immortal

Albert Pine 1851


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