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“Love one another”

Wed, 12/26/2018 - 12:00 am
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    Tacy Ellis Woodson News

Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad. Make a memory this year. Perhaps like the one at the end of the article.

It’s Christmas break (not that I am at all excited about being off school for two weeks, just like the kids are not at all excited). Falalalalalalalala.

School will resume on Jan. 7, after the county stock show.

We have Caroled at the Courthouse. We have toured homes. We have listened to the elementary sing. We attended the Community Christmas Eve Service at the First Baptist Church — now get in gear because the Fifth Sunday Gospel Singing is also at the FBC on Dec. 30. We start singing at 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

The Throckmorton County Junior Livestock Show would appreciate your support. The kids weigh in on Jan 4 and show the next day. Get out and watch the show. To donate in any way, and in any amount, please send a check to TCJLS, c/o Tacy Ellis, 427 S.US Hwy 183, Woodson, 76491.

On the Happy Birthday List for Christmas week are Dale Deaton and Modelle Trimble Ellis. I missed Austin Nelson last week.

Mayor Mathiews, you have a Merry Christmas.

Please pray for Alene Forest, Terry Armstrong, Pie Brown, Frankie and Minerva Whitfield, Kay and Teddy Clark, Dale Deaton, Sr., Janice Davenport, June and Arliss Willingham, Rusty Caraway, Greg Dunlap, Otis and Delora Hibbitts, Bruce and Keron Kinyon, Jeanie and Johnny Stoker, Novella Gilbreath, Lee Cannon, Vicki Sadler, Annette Harper, Ashley Gray, Mae and Keith Boyd, Dee and Carolyn Tate, Bill and Treon Thompson, Jean Brockman, Alex and Marilyn Dickie, Barbara and LB Atkinson, John Brandon Northam, Linda Northam, Linda Dean, Dr. Thora Thurn, Modelle Ellis, David Baxley, and Charlene and Odell Kite, Kelly Pate, Pam Allen, and the Gotschall Family.

Please pray for Kelcey Cruser, and pray for all military and our nation. Please pray for our school, educators, students, and community.

Please pray for those who have lost a loved one.

We are saddened by the tragic loss of Mitchell and Terry Sullivan. Please offer special prayers for their loved ones during this holiday season.

I have searched for a Christmas memory and one that finally stuck was a 90-degree Christmas in Abilene, TX. We lived on River Oaks Circle and I had some “circle” friends. Our porch was often where we kids met. One Christmas Eve, we were playing in our shorts; none of us were more than 9 years old. We had played most of the day when the topic of the real reason for Christmas came up – we talked about Santa and then, as little kids, we talked about Christ and how we should honor Him.

One thing led to another and before we knew it, we had Mary, Joseph, Wise Men, the “Angel of the Lord,” a shepherd, some dogs for stable animals and we completed our scene with a baby Jesus. He was wrapped in “swaddling clothes” and laid in our “manger,” a plastic baby bathtub. We had the porch light on and the Christmas tree in the window behind us and we took part in our “live Nativity” until our parents called us in for supper.

Cars drove by and slowed down to see Mary in her blanket with that soft satin edge, and the shepherd with his Mulberry branch staff, not to mention the three wise men bearing gifts from under our tree, and Joseph with a scarf holding his hair — all of us looking to Jesus in the “manger.” Each time a car would pass, one of the “wise men” would say, “Love one another.”

It is that last part, “looking to Jesus” and “love one another” that I want to remember. I don’t know if my friend didn’t know any other scripture, or if that was the meaning of Christmas for him, but we need to remember his words daily. All of our lives, we should “love one another,” and Jesus is the reason.

If you have a memory to share, birthdays, anniversaries or any news, send it to tacylte@gmail.com.