During the Thanksgiving and Christmas season, many people travel by air and land to visit family. It is a busy time, and often the stress and strain from travel and the social events can cause us to feel overtired. It becomes apparent that we need to focus on the reason for the season. In my travels throughout the years, I have noticed people relaxing while reading a book. It is one of the ways of finding quiet moments of relaxation. I usually travel with books and find moments to have some quiet thoughts from the heart.

Recently, a poem I wrote during some quiet moments was published in "The Best Poem of the 90s" by the National Poetry anthology. I will share these thoughts with you my dear readers of the warm thoughts column: My Bible and I. "We travel together, my Bible and I. Through all kinds of weather, with smiles or a sigh. In sorrow or sunshine, and tempest or calm, it's friendship unchanging, my lamp and my Psalm. We've traveled together, my Bible and I, when life has grown weary and death e'en was nigh. Yet through all the darkness of mist or of roam, I found it a solace, a prayer, and a song. So now who shall part us, my Bible and I? Thou sword of the Spirit, bid error to fly. And still through life's journey until my last sigh, we'll travel together, my Bible and I." The Bible is the most read and is a guide and roadmap in your travels throughout life.

Warm thoughts: "Whenever I feel sad and blue, and all my skies are gray, I read words from a wondrous book and drive my cares away." Ben Burrows.

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G. Werner

Published in the Marion Record December 5th, 1996.

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Trina