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Archive for December 23rd, 2009

This particular season of the year is about JOY. My heart was filled with joy as I read a newspaper story from the Dallas area, about a Nativity Play where the actors are in their seventies,  eighties and nineties-plus.  I laughed with glee reading about an engaging, ninety-five year-old woman named Gladys, who wore cardboard angel wings “against the back of her wheelchair.” There were “bathrobes, tinsel and recycled hospital  gowns” in abundance. The public was invited and I wished that I was there to watch the show.

As I pictured this event in my mind,  I realized that this small production spoke volumes about the joy these people bring and the joy they give to others . They obviously  have a huge amount of  “spirit” in their lives. Read the rest of this entry »