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Do. Not. Give. Up. Giving up creates hopelessness. And hopelessness creates a huge black hole of depression and deadness in you. When you quit caring about anything in life, you stop living, even though your heart continues beating.
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What is the best Christmas you remember? Was it when you were a child? Was it when you received the gift you wanted? Was it when you received a lot of gifts? Maybe it was when you had a special meal? Maybe it was when family members gathered who are no longer alive? Was it when you were younger? Or, was it after you became older? Was it back in the day when you were poor? Was it after you weren’t so poor? Was it when your health was better? Or, did it have something to do with the weather? For example, when you were snowed in with nothing but a warm fire and Christmas music playing on the radio.
Read moreLeftovers from last week’s suggestions for holiday gift giving: MISCELLANEOUS GUIDELINES: 1. Husband concedes that writing thank you notes for the entire household and buying gifts for husband’s business associates are not the Wife’s job.
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No story can match the Christmas story.
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Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.
Read more(Note: I promised Christine Provence, my 10-11-12 grade English teacher at Holdenville High School, that I would run this column every year. She liked it better than any of the seemingly endless papers I wrote in her classes).
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