Which kind of Christmas Spirit do you have?

There are many different types of people so Christmas is celebrated many different ways for different reasons. What do you love most about Christmas? What puts a smile on your face and warmth and love in your heart the most?

Click on the link below to take a fun quiz, "Which kind of Christmas Spirit do you have?". Just answer a few questions and rate the priority for each of your answers. You also get to predict what you think your results will be.

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I just took this very quiz! My results are posted below they did not turn out as I predicted. LOL

It is fun to compare what you think about yourself with the results from your answers...Go ahead

give it a try...just for fun and get into the Christmas Spirit!

Your Which kind of Christmas Spirit do you have? Results:

''My #1'' equals your best match. Default order is alphabetical, Mariana determined the order. URL: http://selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=christmas Link: Which kind of Christmas Spirit do you have?

	My #1 is:	Childish : “Santa will come! And if the boring adults don’t believe, stick your tongue to them!" Books, etc.
	My #2 is:	Familiar : “Family reunited, old people distant physically, but not in heart, together again. This is happiness!" Books, etc.
	My #3 is:	Miraculous : “Once in a year, people decide to just love those around them, and to actually try to work together. No matter my religion (or lack of), can’t I just be happy because of that?" Books, etc.
	My #4 is:	Materialist : “Gifts! Gifts! Gifts!" Books, etc.
	My #5 is:	Religious : “Materialist and pagan references may undermine the true spirit of Christmas, but none of this will change the fact that this is time to rejoice! It’s Christ birthday!" Books, etc.
	My #6 is:	Alienated : “Christmas? What Christmas?" Books, etc.
	My #7 is:	Grimch : “Christmas? Desperate parents warring each other in overcrowded malls to get the latest super mercantile trinket for their shouting kids. Humpft!" Books, etc.

The Thanksgiving Moment

Thanksgiving is one of Life's great moments!

Family travels from all over going home for the holiday to spend all day cooking then join everyone at the table to eat the fine feast created with love! My favorite thing is (and most hate this part) when we all take turns saying what we are thankful for this year!

then after the meal everyone gathers in the biggest room in the place with the most comfortable seats to relax, unbutton the top botton on your pants and watch some FOOTBALL!

Many memories are made and I am thankful for them all!

Everyone have a wonderful holiday moment!

The Time For Thanks!

Here we are again at Holiday time! So fast this year has gone by! Christmas right around the corner and everyone is so, so busy! However, the holiday we will celebrate in just a couple weeks is my personal favorite! THANKSGIVING!

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to really reflect on the current year of your life and remember all of the moments that make life oh so good! All the laughter, smiles, hugs and loving times you have had! No place for the hurt, pain, problems or tears right now! Everything is set aside to enjoy the good things! I love it!

To many times we are bogged down by so many negative things. It is especially nice to concentrate on what makes us happy, what we are truly thankful for. In the midst of real life everyday struggles we lose sight of what it is that keeps us going. Why we get up in the morning and all the times we have gone to bed with a smile on are faces!

I am so thankful for every one of those little moments this year. When I stop an think about it... so many things flood my mind...a smile comes across my face along with a feeling of joy and peacefulness!

If only we could do that everyday as opposed to only one holiday a year, just imagine how our lives might be affected! The spread of happiness would be overwhelming! Ok, I let my imagination run away a bit there...hahaha but you get the idea...right? Happiness is contagious the same as sadness...

So if we were to bring happiness into work with us every morning that would spread to every person we see, over every phone call to the person on the other end...in turn would be spread to the next person they spoke to and so on and so on.

Yes, just a small impact that may not last forever. But! It is in the little things we find the most important things sometimes! So why not give it a shot? Be in the positive just to see what happens.

Start your list of what you are thankful for today. Add a new thing everyday between now and Thanksgiving. It will make your day a little brighter every time you stop to think of something that puts a smile on your face and you may spread a little happiness to the person next to as well!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

~Robert Brault Quotes:

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me

does not consult his calendar.”

“Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.”

“Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.”

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”

“What do you really need?”

“Happiness, the sheer joy of being alive, is within our reach. All we need is an attitude of gratitude,” writes M.J. Ryan in her book Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life. I’ve found that cultivating an attitude of gratitude is one of the most important things I can do for myself. A way to discover this attitude of gratitude is to ask myself, “What do I really need?” Often, the answer to that question helps me put my priorities into place and remember what’s really important in life. So today, I ask you, “What do you really need?”

Keep enjoying the little things! ♥

Positive Lessons

Everyone you meet today has something to teach you.
When you feel yourself getting angry,
frustrated or impatient with the behavior of others,
ask yourself this question.

What is this person helping me to learn?
Even those who treat you badly
can teach you valuable lessons in patience,
compassion, forgiveness and other important virtues.
Letting yourself become annoyed or frustrated with others
adds no value whatsoever to your life,
or to anyone else for that matter.
So take a different approach.

Challenge yourself to learn
from those difficult people and difficult situations.

When an aggressive driver cuts you off,
when a slow sales clerk keeps you waiting,
when a telemarketer interrupts your evening,
look for something to learn from the experience.

Redirect the energy of the situation
so that something positive comes of it.

Look for a way to grow.

Respond to each encounter in a way that will
add value to your life and to your world.

You'll find that such an approach
can quickly make an enormous positive difference.


Ralph Marston

A Flower
by E. Raymond Rock

Have you ever considered the flower?.

It doesn't live long, but while it does, it displays itself so beautifully. It doesn't concern itself with tomorrow, or yesterday; only this one precious moment is important as it unfolds its petals. It positions itself so that it doesn't crowd the other flowers; they all find their place in the field, quietly growing in silence and peace.

A flower requires rain, but doesn't hoard the rain it receives; the rain is allowed to fall equally on all the flowers of the field. It trusts that enough rain will come, and if it doesn't, the flower rests it's fate with all the other flowers.

A flower feels neither hate nor love of its neighbors, only peaceful coexistence, as if the flower is not important enough to even cast judgments such as love or hate. It sees itself as not very significant in the grand scope of things, and perhaps this is why it is so beautiful. It's exuberance is that of an innocent child in the universe, full of hope and trust, unaware even of itself, yet knowing somehow that it can never die...

The fields will always be arrayed

with beautiful flowers.

I won't live long, either, considering how fast a lifetime speeds by . . . and I notice the flowers more often now. Who knows, perhaps the time I have left on this earth will be counted in months rather than years . . . and I only wish that I could display myself as beautifully as a flower with what time I have left. Too much of my time has been spent saving up the rain, which I no longer need.

My goals in life have been superficial.

The simple, beautiful thing that a flower does so naturally, growing toward the light, I should have done, but I grew toward other things that caught my eye. I wasn't still enough to notice flowers back then; all I could see was myself. I had so many chances to display myself beautifully, but instead I surrendered to my fears, and greedily pushed others aside as I climbed over them to get the best spot in the field...

But with the time I have left, I will forgo the mindless pursuits of my youth and study the lowly, exalted flower. I will discover its secret, and I will learn to grow toward the light as it does. I will find out how to display myself beautifully so that whomever I encounter, they will go away feeling better than before...

I will dedicate myself to truth,
no longer greedy or fearful,
or thinking that I am special.

I will trust that the rain will fall,
and that the light will help me grow.

And I will reach beyond my small self that keeps me so ugly and out of step with the vast meadow of life, a vast field of constant renewal that I am beginning to see with new eyes.

I will no longer hate the other flowers;
how could I now?

This morning, I walked through my garden as usual, but the sunlight on the flowers was different,

so extraordinarily brilliant. And suddenly, I realized that the sun was falling on me too...
All I had to do was accept its warmth,
and accept all things that may come along.

And trust