Tips to Make the Season Brighter

Here is some good advice that should help you and me keep ourselves in the right frame of mind throughout the holiday season.

• Prepare your soul for the holiday. on gifts that your soul is forgotten.

• Spend not so much

• Don't let Santa Claus replace Christ, even for one day, as the central figure in your life.

• Don't burden the store clerk, the mail carrier, and the waitress with complaints and demands.

Give yourself with your gift. This will increase its value a hundred fold, and he who receives it shall treasure it forever.

• Do not value gifts received by their cost. Even the least expensive may signify love, and that is more priceless than silver and gold.

• Do not neglect the needy. Share your blessings with many who will go hungry and cold unless you are generous.

• Do not neglect Christ's church. To neglect church services for secular celebrations makes a mockery of your religion.

• Keep a child-like spirit. Not until you have become in spirit as a little one are you ready to enter into the kingdom of Heaven.

• Give your heart to Christ. Let Him be at the top of your wish list.

Edited from Bulletin Digest

WHOEVER YOU ARE

THERE IS SOME YOUNGER PERSON THAT TRULY LOOKS UP TO YOU.

THERE IS SOME WORK THAT WON'T GET DONE IF YOU DON'T DO IT.

THERE IS SOMEONE WHO WOULD MISS YOU IF YOU WERE GONE.

THERE IS A REASON FOR BECOMING BETTER THAN YOU ARE.

THERE IS A PLACE TO BE FILLED THAT YOU ALONE CAN FILL.

-via Family Newsletter.

Where "U" Are Needed

'U" are needed in Bible ST_DY
(But not in "ignorance")

"U'are needed in S-PPORT
(But not in "neglect")

"U" are needed in U-ITY
(But not in "partyism" or "division")

'U'are needed in D-TY
(But not in "irresponsibility")

'U'are needed in B-ILDING
(But not in"tearing down")

'U' are needed in the CH-RCH
(But not in the "world")

The church in work, worship and study, needs 'U'
, ... and more than that, 'U' need the church.

Edited -via Madison church bulletin