Warm greetings from the Little Home on the Prairie and a Happy New Year! When you read the first column of Warm Thoughts for this new year, your thoughts may still be reflecting on memories of your traditional Christmas with friends and family. How exciting to pass on those wonderful traditions to our children and grandchildren! We can have generations of memories.

In December, I took you around the world in my Christmas memories. Christmas 1994 was Christmas in Ohio for me. The highlight for me was to be able to attend my grandchildren's Christmas programs. And of course they were angels and singing angels too. We grandparents seem to think we have almost perfect grandchildren and for some reason they love to be actors and actresses. During the program, granddaughter Rosa's halo seemed to always be slipping, and sometimes even fell off. While all this was happening, I glanced at her father while we all sang "Silent Night." He was falling asleep, gently nodding as we sang, "sleep in heavenly peace."

Traveling the Greyhound bus to and from Ohio can be quite an experience and meeting interesting people. On the way to Ohio I became educated in the field of Geology as my seat partner was a dear lady from Belgium who had her doctorate and that science. On the way home, across from me was a young man studying Environmental Science at the Heidelberg University in Ohio. My world became a little larger as I listened to all of those scientific thoughts.

How good it is to return after a long trip to "Home Sweet Home" and over a cup of tea, be able to write these thoughts. Now, as I reflect on 1994 I can't help but think, "Where has the year gone? Where have all the years gone?" I would like to share these Warm Thoughts with you for the year 1995: May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep you happy, enough failure to keep you humble, enough success to keep you eager, enough friends to give you comfort, enough enthusiasm to look forward, enough faith to banish depression, enough determination to make each day better than yesterday. Author Unknown. God bless you and yours in 1995!

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

Published in the Marion Record, January 5th, 1995.
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