The Greatest Gifts

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

        You are in my thoughts, my prayers, and my heart always~

     I had hoped to get back here by Thanksgiving, but unfortunately my husband’s health issues resurfaced, and we spent Thanksgiving in the hospital. We are truly thankful for the doctors and nurses that also spent Thanksgiving with us and for their loving care and devotion. Thankfully, he is home now after several months of frequent visits to the doctors’ offices and/or the hospital. Needless to say, I have not spent much time on the computer except to look up medical information. However, I did not want to let Christmas pass by without wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with love, laughter, good health, and prosperity.

   I wish that I could put into words what is in my heart ~ for my heart overflows with thoughts of you that come to me at the most unexpected times. I miss reading your diaries, yet my mind still wraps itself around previous entries that I have read, and they bring a smile to my face. We have never met. Yet in many ways we have shared a lifetime of experiences. You have opened the doors to far away places that previously only existed in my dreams ~ dreams that we have shared. You have revealed personal chapters of your life which have helped me get through some rough times just knowing that we are never truly alone. You have held my hand as I retraced my childhood footsteps. You have shared your visions, your aspirations, and even your disappointments with me. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, and we’ve dreamed together ~ what greater gifts can we receive than these~  I thank you with all of my heart. We will meet again, of that I am sure.

Helen Keller said, “The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

     May each of you enjoy the warmth and the Love of Christmas.

      You are in my thoughts, my prayers, and my heart always~