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My Christmas cheer drama
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I enjoy being cheerful fun of people scurrying and Christmas time is a around trying to find special time to be cheerful the latest bargain. It is a and I try my best to live little strange to me that up to it. Occasionally, the when people get a gift for Gracious Mistress of the somebody they look for a Parsonage will suggest I am bargain. going a little too far. When I got home, I During the rest of the sat down in my recliner year I stay out of reminiscing about shopping malls as the day and then I much as possible. did something I do During the not normally do. Christmas season, I took out my I want to go to the wallet to clean it. shopping mall and This is something walk around without I do at least once a any purchases to year. DR. JAMES make. Sometimes I get L. SNYDER I like watching cards in my wallet Out to Pastor people spend their that have expired or money on things they do not are no longer valid. need and for people they No sense in having may not like. I like to give things in your wallet that cheer more than anything you do not need or cannot else. use. Several cards had Actually, it is the only expired and so into the thing I can afford. And so I trash can they went. will send my cheerfulness You can tell a lot about a into cheer bankruptcy. person by the things in his Whatever that may be. wallet. My wife, on the other The Christmas season hand, carries a purse. has never been a time for I will not be caught dead me to spend excessive looking in that purse. In fact, amounts of money. I leave I would be dead if caught all that to my wife. She looking. I am not sure what knows how to shop and she has in her purse and I she begins her Christmas do not want to know what shopping right around she has in there. I love February. I could never living. figure that out. When I buy A man’s wallet is a little a gift for someone, I want to different. He has things hand it to them right then. in there that are rather She has the discipline to practical. There will be a buy Christmas gifts months driver’s license, a Social ahead of time. Security card, insurance Something happened card, not to mention credit this past week that brought cards. all of my cheerfulness to an Everything he needs to abrupt halt. get through a week with I had just come from the plenty of cheerfulness on mall where I was making the side.
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Going through my wallet this time I found something that shocked me to the core of my being. There in my wallet, folded up rather neatly and tucked in a corner, was a $50 bill. I cannot tell you the last time I saw a $50 bill. How it got there, I will never know. My father always had a folded $50 bill in his wallet for emergencies. I am not my father. Ordinarily, you would think finding $50 in your wallet would be a moment of rejoicing. Not so here. It is towards the end of the year, all gifts are purchased for Christmas and all bills are paid. I like to pay ahead of time just to make sure the bills are being paid. And so there was nothing that needed to be paid at that time. Life has taught me several lessons and one in particular. If you find extra money it means some disaster is about to befall. Usually the catastrophe that happens costs more than the money you find. I found $50 and so it is reasonable to believe that the catastrophe facing me will cost $100. I did not know if I should mention this to my wife. It is not that we are superstitious, we have just live life long enough to know what comes around goes around and what goes up usually comes down. What is going to happen now? What is going to go wrong? What in the house is going to fall apart? Then
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my dilemma was solved. My wife came into the room and said, “I was wondering,” and she was stammering a little bit as she said it. “I was wondering if perhaps we could take the grandchildren out for Christmas lunch tomorrow. I know it costs a lot, but I think they would enjoy it.” I smiled and she looked at me a little quizzically and asked, “What are you smiling about?” It was then I pulled out of my wallet the neatly folded $50 bill and waved it in her direction and said, “I think Christmas lunch with the grandchildren tomorrow would be a fantastic idea.” Some people worry about what they do not have. I worry about what I have to make sure I am using it in the best possible manner. “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High” (Psalms 92:1). I am thankful for what I have but I am also thankful for what I do not have. Nothing takes the place of a contented heart and my contentment rests in the Lord Jesus Christ. I need nothing more. The Rev. James L. Snyder is pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, PO Box 831313, Ocala, FL 34483. He lives with his wife, Martha, in Silver Springs Shores. Call him at 1-866-552-2543 or email jamessnyder2@att. net. His web site is www. jamessnyderministries. com.
Faith EVENTS ST. JOSEPH HOLIDAY MASS
CHIPLEY — St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church will have Reconciliation at 6 p.m. today, Dec. 11, at St. Joseph the Worker.
‘WINTER WONDERLAND’
BONIFAY — Live Oak Assembly of God will have its fourth annual “Winter Wonderland” at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, with food, games and prizes. The Drama Ministry Team will start at 7 p.m. The church is at 2118 Live Oak Road. For details, call 547-0194.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
SUNNY HILLS — Harmony Shores Chorus, the Panama City Chapter of Sweet Adelines International, will present its annual Christmas show, “The Sounds of Christmas” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church. The show also will feature the Gulf Tones, Panama City’s men’s barbershop chorus, and Mixed Company. Admission is free (donations welcome). St. Theresa’s is at 2056 Sunny Hills Blvd.
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BONIFAY — Jerre Richter and the Ministry Staff of Bonifay House of Prayer and Praise would like to invite everyone to Revival Services at 6 p.m. today, Dec. 11, and continuing each night until Saturday, Dec. 14. The church is located at 826 N. Caryville Road in Bonifay. For more information call 547-5941.
CHILDREN’S PROGRAM
POPLAR SPRINGS — Bethel’s Children’s program, directed by Jamie and Nancy Messer, will be presented at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15. This year’s play is entitled, “An Out of the Box Christmas.” These children will bless your hearts with their performance. Please join us in our Family Ministry Center after the play for some delicious food and fellowship. Bethel Baptist Church is located at 1349 Hwy. 173 in the Poplar Springs Community.
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