MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL my family and friends!  This has certainly been a YEAR TO REMEMBER for my FAMILY!   I am truly GRATEFUL and feel very BLESSED to be able to spend this next week with ALL of my CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN before I start treatment at the beginning of the year.

At the suggestion of my daughter Kelsi and her husband John Mellor, we are doing things differently this year.  I will share her post on facebook with you.  They passed out this message along with Yellow Bracelets to  family, friends and John's colleagues at ADOBE. 

Kelsi Jackson Mellor

We've decided to do Christmas different this year. On November 30th, my mother, Bobby Jo, was diagnosed with colon cancer - she's a fighter and we have faith she'll make a full recovery. In her honor, and instead of presents, we have made a donation to the Livestrong Foundation to continue the fight against cancer. There isn't a person we know that hasn't been affected by this disease either perso...nally or via a close friend or family member (John's father died of cancer at 72). Maybe we are extra sentimental with a baby due, but it feels like the right cause for us to focus on this holiday season and, if you are so inclined, we would love to see you wearing a Livestrong bracelet as your gift to us this year. Go Bobby Jo Jackson!
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We are all wearing YELLOW LIVESTRONG bracelets this year and will continue to wear them until I am cured.  I feel very BLESSED with the response this has generated and I am truly GRATEFUL!!  I have HOPE and FAITH that I will be CURED!

At this Christmas Time I would like to share a message from President Howard W. Hunter during a Christmas Devotional in 1994.

"Be Gentle.  Be Kind.  Apologize.  Write a Letter.  Keep a Promise.  Try to Understand.  Give a Soft Answer.  Laugh a Little More.  Express Your Gratitude.  Think First of Someone Else.  Seek Out a Forgotten Friend.  Gladden the Heart of a Child.  Examine your Demands on Others.  Speak your Love, Then Speak it AGAIN.  Manifest Your Loyalty in Word and Deed.  Dismiss Suspicion and Replace it with Trust.  Take Pleasure in the Beauty and Wonder of the Earth.  Forgo a Grudge.  Mend a Quarrel.  Forgive an Enemy.  Encourage a Youth.  Welcome a Stranger".

If our need had been Information, God would have sent us an Educator. 

If our need had been Technology, God would have sent us a Scientist.

If our need had been Money, God would have sent us an Economist.

If our need had been Pleasure, God would have sent us an Entertainer.

But our Greatest need was Forgiveness - So God sent us a SAVIOR!!

I am so GRATEFUL for the Birth of OUR SAVIOR Jesus Christ.  I am THANKFUL for HIS Atonement in my behalf and in behalf of ALL of us.  I feel very BLESSED!  I would ask that you continue to pray for me and my family.  We need your prayers and your faith in our behalf!  Thank you Thank you Thank you!  Love and Hugs to ALL of you!  GOD BLESS US EVERYONE!!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:  Always Leave a Little Room in Your Holidays for MIRACLES!!  I believe in MIRACLES!