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Your Turn to Give for Christmas
Many stores and libraries this time of year have donation boxes to collect gifts for children. Some even have Christmas trees with places to hang mittens, warm hats, socks, and so forth. Those items will be distributed later to children who have no other way to get these needed items.
Christmas is the perfect time to think about giving something to others less fortunate than ourselves. (more…)
How Can You Say “Thank You”?
How can you tell someone, “Thank you”? What can you do to show your gratitude?
Reader’s Digest asked their Facebook followers to suggest some ways. Here are two of the methods their followers recommended: (more…)
A Strange Thing to Be Thankful For
When Corrie ten Boom was arrested with her family in February 1944 for helping Jews escape the Nazis, she and her sister were sent to the women’s section of a harsh concentration camp. There she found infestations of vermin: lice and fleas.
Instead of being angry about the vermin, she decided to thank God for them. Soon, she found out (more…)
What Is Happening in this Yosemite Photo?
Every so often, it’s fun to forget about essay writing.
Today, instead of learning some writers’ device or essay format, you get to write a story or a journal entry from a photograph.
Here’s the photo, taken in Yosemite National Park: (more…)
