Christmas is loaded with expectations, isn’t it? Christmas shopping, decorating and entertaining. Typically we knock ourselves out trying to make it the “perfect” Christmas. And year after year we end up with the same empty feeling, like Christmas wasn’t as personally fulfilling as we’d hoped. Why is that? Let’s look at a few of our expectations. Picture yourself seated at a beautifully decorated Christmas dining... > Full Story

Ask anyone “Should we protect our environment?” and almost without exception they will answer yes. Thousands of square meters of forest area are lost to deforestation every second...

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One Christmas, I came across an article in a local newspaper by an articulate columnist named Bill Johnson. His column was titled, “A Lesson in Catching the Christmas Spirit.”...

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