Christmas and me!

Christmas! (-2023)

(7-decades and 6 years! Wow!)

 

Who?---(simple-humble)-Me!?...Hmm!

 

I appreciate!---Memories!...Sacred & Profound! Amen!

 

Enveloped in comfort-warmth of Faith! Family! & Freedom! Father! Son! & Holy Spirit!

 

Early years---

 

So very Precious! Anything and everything any child could ever want or dream! Wow!

Magic!---It seemed…and was!...and forever has been continuing! So blessed! Appreciative!

Fantasy! Such a Delightful! Perfect! Easy! Bountiful! Lovely! Life! Love! Laughter! Wow!

Christmas!---Every day-of-the-year!...Not so-much material! Better---Love!...Forever! Amen!

Faith! Love is the very foundation of holy-sacred Faith! “For God so loved the world…”!

Family! The most important ingredient comprising a recipe for any Who? or What? one is.

Freedom!-Born-Liberty! Declaration! Independence! Constitution! Bible! Red! White! Blue!

Live! And---Oh! Boy!...did we ever! Wow! No money! Rented house! Gourmet-food! Love!

Love!---Everywhere!...And, always! Family!  Friends! Kin! Strangers! Clergy! Nuns! Fun!

Laughter! Perpetual! No-complaints! Only---Thankfulness!...and…Generosity! Loving!

Christian-generosity! Mom & Dad! Perfect! Immaculate-house! Clean-clothes! Gormet-food! At Christmas Dad always gave the Nun-teachers a basket of nuts with a bottle of wine enclosed!

Church & School! Divine! Inspiration! (10-Commandments!) Challenge! (Reading! Writing! Cyphering!) Excitement!---To exercise the brain!...Conclude Right(?) Hmm!? In temptation!?

Mass! Exhilarating! Humbling! Rewarding! Night-Novena! “Heaven-on-earth!” Amen!

Life! So Charming! Events! Adventure! Fantasy! Education! Spirit! Curiosity! Education!

 

Middle-adventures---

 

Lovely-Lady Candice Leah says everything happened when I was “12”!?---Well!... Maybe!?

Pitched in Busch Stadium in the IL-MO All-star game; I could play when I was “12”! Hmm!

Today!?---My “pitching” days are past…I’m so Proud just to…”walk”! No-complaints!

I read Candy poetry on a summer-day romance on ole Fox Lake; a gentleman, I let her row!

On a Thanksgiving rabbit hunt I spied a cedar Christmas-tree; Dad okayed my idea! Great!

He taught me to fish and hunt & Respect for Mother Nature in “Give more than you receive”.

Mom knew everything and could remedy any & all “issues”! Forever patient and supportive!

 

A Fantasy-Life (undeserved)…

 

Comes sacred-marriage vow!---Children! Grand! & Great!...Heaven-Paradise! Amen! Amen!

Saints! & Angels! A plethora! Myriad! Dancing-Diamonds! All---Satiating Peace!...My-Love!

Rainbows! Flutter-bys! & Unicorns!---Fantasy contemplating the cosmos!...Pure-Delight!

 

Merry Christmas! Every-day! Love! Candy & Carl