Reflections on the Season: Good Will to Men

Written by Anne Dibala, M.D., The Recovery Coach™


Such arerepparttar words that are sung, read, and printed repeatedly throughout this holiday season.

So what do we mean by this expression? “Good” means that which is positive, wholesome, health-inducing, salubrious. “Will” means something desired . “Good will” is considered to mean good wishes or intentions. “Toward men” in this day and age, is construed as meaning “toward human beings, female and male alike.”

In this holiday season what do you mean when you utter this phrase? To which people do you wish to expresses wishes of well-being, joy, hope, success and prosperity? How far does your generosity of spirit extend?

Just a thought to consider as we enter a season which as has its underpinnings based upon a teacher who espoused love, forgiveness, and peace even in this world populated by human beings with frail human natures and human emotions, unchanged in our basic natures as 2000 years ago.

An Angel's Special Christmas Gift

Written by Steve Brunkhorst


Towering ponderosa pine trees reached up to touch a blue December sky. Their top branches waved to billowy white clouds sailing overrepparttar snow-covered Colorado forest. Sniffingrepparttar 123375 sweet-scented Ponderosa bark filled my head withrepparttar 123376 aroma of Christmas candles and butterscotch cookies.

I lowered my tripod torepparttar 123377 ground, and pointed my camera lens towardrepparttar 123378 top branches of these living giants. Their pinnacles formed a lofty monument to centuries of natural perfection. If these trees could talk, they would tell tales ofrepparttar 123379 forest dating back hundreds of years.

The sky was alive with moving cloud forms. I thought, "Maybe there will be some angel clouds to photograph today." I walked into a small clearing to get a full view ofrepparttar 123380 moving clouds. Suddenly I froze in my tracks, amazed at what I saw.

Upon a large boulder was a perfect angel made of snow. She posed graciously with wings spread while I photographed her from several perspectives. Her framed image would make a unique Christmas gift for a friend who collects angels.

I had witnessed againrepparttar 123381 magnificent perfection of nature; its artistic forest patterns are filled with divine symbols. All of creation bares God's signature in ways we can read it.

Like a moment of compelling photographic light, every moment can bring gifts of joy and empowerment. Yet we must attend to them, and choose to see them with new eyes. Awareness allows us to see throughrepparttar 123382 eyes ofrepparttar 123383 spirit, and understand withrepparttar 123384 heart.

How can we increase our level of awareness to fill our moment-to-moment experiences with more wonder and joy?

1. Stop, and attend purposefully to sights, sounds, smells, and feelings inrepparttar 123385 present moment. Accept this unique moment as your own, and noticerepparttar 123386 perspective from which you view it.

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