From Our Co-Ministers

December 2007

GIFTS TO GIVE TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS

• December 1 Greet the day with gratitude.
• December 2 Sing Hallelujah! and find the spirit of the season.
• December 3 Count your blessings.
• December 4 Keep the lamps lit. Burn the debris of habit, greed and fear.
• December 5 Burn with compassionate justice.
• December 6 Share the warmth of love.
• December 7 Wrap yourself in a comforter and listen to Vivaldi’s Winter.
• December 8 Place a surprise phone call.
• December 9 Stretch your lungs with holy breath to sing.
• December 10 Simmer and breathe in the sweet scents of cinnamon, allspice, and clove.
• December 11 Do something that won’t compute.
• December 12 Love Life.
• December 13 Love the world.
• December 14 Love someone who doesn’t deserve it.
• December 15 Wash the dishes when it’s not your turn.
• December 16 Laugh.
• December 17 Be joyful though you’ve considered all the facts.
• December 18 Rejoice and praise life with your eyes, ears, voice, hands.
• December 19 Bring glad tidings, comfort, and joy.
• December 20 Notice the good people are doing, look them in the eye and thank them.
• December 21 Look out at the beauty of the night’s dark sky.
• December 22 Leave a poem on a doorstep.
• December 23 Pass along a book or object you’ve treasured.
• December 24 Travel a desert. Follow a star.
• December 25 Give a smile, a hug, words of love.
• December 26 Give thanks.
• December 27 Manifest love by listening.
• December 28 Say, “Yes!”
• December 29 Forgive an old grudge.
• December 30 Dance down the street backwards.
• December 31 Let go and begin again in love.

Wishing you joyful holidays!

Barbara and Bill
Revs. Barbara and Bill Hamilton-Holway, Co-Ministers

NOTE: Worship Associates Needed for 9:00 A.M. Service.
The Sunday 9:00 a.m. Service begins in January and is being envisioned with its own style and with more congregational participation. Worship Associates are lay worship leaders who will work with ministers to create the 9:00 service. Worship Associates will participate in a training session Thursday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. If you are interested in applying, please talk with Barbara Hamilton-Holway.