Another year has flown right by;
One gift followed after another!
I can’t help but wonder in awe
At the life of a father and mother.

This year we gained a daughter;
Three granddaughters joined us, too.
Our table that holds a-plenty
Is overflowing with gratitude!

Two daughters are expecting;
Grandchildren will be twenty-three!
With so many children near us,
Empty-nesters we won’t be!

As we look forward to another year
We see God’s Hand in all.
Through the good times and the bad;
Through the great and through the small.

May 2017 be a great year for you;
May it hold special gifts of love!
We pray you and yours are blessed
With many graces from above!

Merry Christmas to all of you! You are in my prayers, please keep us in yours!

 

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“For Christmas begins and ends with a Child. About the Infant in the manger prophecies are fulfilled, and angels sing, and the poor kneel giftless save for the unpurchasable gift of patient affection, and the rich come gilt-laden, but with a strange humility bringing low their heads, and all mankind is reborn to a new era of grace and hope and God’s revelation of love and graciousness.” – Fr. Daniel A. Lord