 ‘Tis the Season for Smiles, Appreciation, Fun and Thanksgiving
By Dian Moore
Mark your calendars everyone! October is full of celebration and recognition, smiles and fun.
In the United States, apples, kind acts, appreciation and making a difference abound. Worldwide celebrations concentrate on fun and smiles and the Jewish Festival of Booths (Sukkot). Germany and Canada give thanks for the harvest. Argentina and India honor their nations’ Mothers, while Australians recognize their country’s workers.
National Clergy Appreciation Month began in 1993 in the U.S. to recognize ministers on the second Sunday of October. Congregations around the world might want to start their own Clergy Appreciation time.
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Apple Baskets for Everyone!
By Karen Treharne
When we speak a word of encouragement, comfort or instruction at just the right moment in time, it can be as sweet to the soul and as nourishing to the heart as a gift of golden, delicious apples to both the giver and the receiver.
There are tart apples, sweet apples, crunchy and juicy apples. There are pie apples, eating apples, bobbing and drying apples. God loves variety and that's why He created you and me, similar in some ways but very different in others.
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