This season give your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To every child, a good example.
To all, charity.
To yourself, respect.
~ Oren Arnold
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree but in the hearts of true friends.

Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry

Thanks to Lynda Herman for sharing this lovely poem at our meeting!

What Do You Want For Christmas?
By Maureen Killoran

Headphones to grant me some private space…
tickets to some far-off exotic place…

What do you want for Christmas?

Clothing to dress me to paint the town red…silk
sheets to wrap me when I go to bed…

What do you want for Christmas?

Harry Potter’s a good one…the kids will go wild…
and I love him too, ‘cause I’m really a child…

What do you want for Christmas?

There’s camera equipment, that’s sure to appeal…
there’s software galore at really good deals…

What do you want for Christmas?

I look in my closets, I look at my house, there’s
nothing I need,…no, not even a mouse…

What do you want for Christmas?

Would it mater, I wonder, if there under the tree,
was a wee tiny package all wrapped up for me, and
when opened, ‘twas empty, no present I’d see…just
a feeling of peace and…serenity.

What do you want for Christmas?

And maybe compassion, wrapped up with a bow, a
gentle enfolding so really I’d know what could and
what couldn’t, what is and what ain’t. Just some
understanding. (I won’t be a saint.)

What do you want for Christmas?

It’s asking too much, now, to ask for world peace, but
on my list it’s up there, that wars may soon cease.
and justice, for children, that all may be fed, and
wanted, and cuddled and tucked into bed.

What do you want for Christmas?

The economy needs us, or so we’ve been told…
spending our dollars in purchases bold..but still,
in the silence of this holy night, I know what I want
most is not sold with bright lights. What I deeply
need is to set aside fear, to let myself reach out in
this coming year…to know with my heart the
whole world as my kin…that Love may be born,
and Peace may begin.

What do you want for Christmas?

Rev. Dr. Maureen Killoran is now serving in Vero Beach, FL as
an Interim Minister in the Unitarian Universalist tradition.

What you react to in others you strengthen in yourself;
What you do to others, you do to yourself
Echkart Tolle

Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free

Echkart Tolle

Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry

Don't Miss the Last Meeting of the Year!!

Imagine being able to control stress, boost your immune system, improve your memory, and increase your happiness! Come to the last Citizens for Peace meeting of 2010 on Tuesday, Dec. 14th and learn about Heart Math and "Be Peace"! The focus is on living from the heart. The meeting begins at 7 pm.
See you there!
Peace,
Colleen

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

Eckhart Tolle

Peace to You and Yours with Love
Jerry