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God's Warrior
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Ways to Celebrate Christmas EVERY Day!Ways to Celebrate Christmas EVERY Day!
The Bible instructs us to extend love, kindness, charity, and fellowship to all we meet, just as Jesus did. Don't just say you're a Christian, BE a Christian, for true Christians teach by example. Spread the word of God's love through your actions, and celebrate the birth of Christ in your heart and deeds everyday. This is what Christmas Everyday is about.
Here are few things you can do to renew the Christmas spirit everyday:
* Bake a batch of Christmas cookies (who cares if it's the middle
of summer..it's fun!).
* Feed the birds.
* Give a gift to someone at work-anonomously.
* Read the Bible.
* Read the Bible to a child.
* Pull out your Christmas card list and send postcards to
everyone on it just to say "Hi".
* Stop by and visit a friend or relative who is homebound. If
you don't know anyone, check with your church, I'm sure they
do.
* Love unconditionally.
* Clean out your attic and/or closet. Give unused clothing to the
Salvation Army, DAV, or a local women's shelter.
* Listen to some Christmas songs (they cheer me up no matter
when I listen to them).
* Play a board game with your family instead of turning on the
T.V...even if it is a new episode of ER.
* Call an old friend.
* E-mail an old friend.
* Go to your local animal shelter even if only to give an unwanted
animal a few moments of attention and love.
* Bake a cake for your neighbor (a fruitcake would be very
'Christmasy' but kinda icky)
* Bring home that puppy or kitten your kids have been begging
for.
* Say a prayer for someone who is not very nice to you. They
probably need it. (Don't we all!)
* Pick up a bag of groceries just to take to a local shelter or soup
kitchen.
* Have a yard sale, make everything free.
* Have a yard sale and give all proceeds to your church.
* Create your own web site dedicated to celebrating Christmas
everyday! 
* Dig out your Christmas socks--wear 'em--to work.
* Write a Christmas story or poem with your family and/or
friends as the characters. Send it with your Christmas cards.
* Turn up the AC and put a fire in the fireplace. Hang stockings!
* Play.
* Stop and look around once in awhile, thank God for another
day on Earth.
* Take some books or stuffed animals to the children's unit at
a local hospital.
* Buy yourself something new.
* Take a road you've never taken before...see where it leads.
* Make a turkey, with all the trimmings!
* Have some cranberry sauce.
* Believe in miracles. Mary did.
* Take a co-worker to lunch.
* Call your parents, tell them you love them.
* Forgive.
* Watch your favorite Christmas movie.
* Pull out your nativity figurines. Leave them out.
* Embrace diversity.
* Commit random acts of kindness, often.
* Volunteer.
* Buy a plant, re-pot it--we all need room to grow.
* Take the dog for a long walk.
* Rake your neighbor's yard.
* Throw a party.
* Go through old photo's. Smile.
* Visit the grave site of a loved one, thank God that you are
alive.
* Thank Jesus that you will never die.
* Have a picnic.
* Have a candlelight dinner.
* Baby-sit for free so that someone can have a picnic or a
candlelight dinner.
* Look for angels.
* Be an angel.
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