Celebration of Discipline‚ by Richard Foster‚ was a great book explaining practical ways to live a Christian life. It also provided key insights on how to strengthen your Christian walk‚ live a spiritually disciplined life‚ and showed the outcomes of living such life. In the book Mr. Foster talked about twelve spiritual inward‚ outward‚ and corporate disciplines. The inward disciplines mentioned in the book were meditation‚ prayer‚ fasting‚ and study. These disciplines help us to evaluate ourselves
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about it. The stingy‚ cold‚ introverted‚ unappreciative fellow had become the most generous‚ warm-hearted‚ friendly‚ and open person you could find in all of England. Scrooge has been well aware that he had recently undertaken a tremendous change because he purposely brought it upon himself. Fred and Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim and his maid all oversaw that he upheld his vow of retaining the Christmas spirit in heart yearlong. He so far had been successful in being pleasant all year long‚ but as he traveled
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the world into the war to end all wars‚ which ended in countless casualties. Many of the participating countries predicted the war would end by Christmas of 1914. But in December of 1914 countries were still at war with one another and soldiers were still on the front lines in deep muddy trenches. The war did not stop the soldiers from celebrating Christmas with their comrades or their enemies. But‚ how did this come about? What happened during this truce? Were there soldiers against the idea of the
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One of the most anxiously awaited occasions in any school is its annual day. Great excitement and hurried activities are visible all around. The preparations for the annual day begin much ahead of the day itself. The school gets a complete face-lift with all the classrooms thoroughly cleaned and charts on all subjects are displayed on the walls. This is done to impress the Chief Guest‚ other guests and parents. The venue of the function is decorated with Writings‚ balloons‚ banners and lights.
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Ticking Clock During Christmas On a normal day for Vertex‚ a very unusual incident happened. This never happened before in the past ten years. The clock was ticking so fast and as a result‚ Christmas day is getting closer faster than how it should really be. “What’s happening?” Vertex yelled not knowing that he is not the only one who noticed the clock. Instead‚ the entire town did. Everyone in the town was so scared that they didn’t know what to do. Vertex then finally decided to go find a definite
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My dear children‚ parents‚ distinguished guests I am grateful to Saint Sai Montessorri School to have invited me today to this 23rd Annual day celebration. It is a great pleasure to address young children and their parents. Children are our tomorrow - our future. Bright children I see here today will be the citizens of tomorrow. They may tomorrow grow up to be Einsteins‚ Rabindra Naths‚ Gandhis‚ Abdul Kalams & Kishore Kumars. And if we see the past record of this school...most of the kids who
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Surprising Spirit “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values” says Thomas S. Monson. This is one intricate message that Ebenezer Scrooge failed to grasp. Ebenezer Scrooge is the narcissistic‚ avaricious protagonist in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. To start off‚ Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas past‚ the ghost
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‘Generosity is not just about the giving of money’. How is this idea explored in a Christmas carol? Charles Dickens’ allegorical tale ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ explores ideas about generosity‚ and explains the idea that generosity can be understood in ways that do not involve the giving of money. The stories used by Dickens to exemplify this idea are mostly about the generosity of spirit shown by people who are unable to give money; the poor‚ the burdened and the children. Dicken’s position seems to
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I am reading Skipping Christmas by John Grisham and I am done with the book. This book is about Nora and Luther Krank skipping everything about Christmas to go on a cruise. They decide this because their daughter‚ Blair‚ is going to be in Peru on a mission trip. They also want to take a break from the expenses and the busy season. When Blair decides to surprise them by coming home for Christmas‚ they give the cruise to a couple whose wife was recently diagnosed with cancer. After a lot of haste and
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World’s Top Christmas Destinations: Christmas is one of the most exciting times of the year. To celebrate the Christmas‚ the whole World becomes illuminated with tons of light and people all over the World feel the groove of the festive period. With the long two weeks of the holiday it is the best time to travel. Planning a holiday could be a difficult job‚ but here is the list of best cities to visit on Christmas. New York: New York is the most glamorous destination to spend the Christmas. Rockefeller
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