Tag Archives: Christmas and holiday season

Family, friends, Holidays, Poems and Writings, Random Thoughts

Thank you for being a part of my life

December 8, 2012 Ray Barbier 1 Comment

To all my readers, friends, family and extended family, I pray that you have a merry Christmas. I also pray that in the new year to come you find peace within yourself, love for all living things including yourself. May you be guided by the hand of god and may his love fill your heart and lives. Know that I love every single one of you and that I know I have been blessed to have all of you in my life. I know I may not always have expressed how much you meant to me in the past because like everyone else I allowed the madness of modern life to keep me from the people and things that matter most. Thank you for being a part of my life and may God bless you all.

I know many of you will never see or read this post but I know within my heart you will feel it within your heart.

Merry Christmas to All

Ray Barbier

It’s the Gifts given to us through grace (onelifetimeblog.com)
Carols: A Christmas Devotional – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (christlikeministriesnwa.wordpress.com)
Merry Christmas! (myfashioncents.com)
An Email from a Friend (loopyloo305.com)
Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays (mapletreedruidry.wordpress.com)
Paying it Forward, Gifting, Acts of Random Kindness, Secret Santa (hundredpercentchanceofchange.wordpress.com)
What to Write in your 1:1 Holiday Cards (cardstore.com)
Merry Christmas(BSB Group Holiday Novel) ch.9-13-The Conculsion (bsbfansonlyfanfics.wordpress.com)
Blessed Assurance (musingsfromthegram.typepad.com)

Family, friends, Personal, Poems and Writings, Random Thoughts, Religious, Thought of the day

The reason for the season

November 13, 2012 Ray Barbier Leave a comment

The holiday season is upon us and the sale ads are pouring out like a tropical storm. Time to go spend your hard-earned cash on Thanksgiving diner and Christmas presents. Just remember through out all of the spending frenzy and the sales the reason for the season. Thanksgiving is the day to give thanks for another year of survival and for the blessing of having food upon your table. Christmas of course is the celebrated day of our savior’s birth and the salvation he brought us all. Don’t get caught up in all the commercialization of the holidays and remember to focus on the family more than on the gifts you are going to give and receive.

May God bless your Holiday Season and Remember to Give thanks every day for the blessings in our life.

Happy Holidays

Ray Barbier

Made In America Store Brings Festive Shaped Nordic Ware Cake Pans For The Holiday Season (prweb.com)
Small Businesses Expect Boost From Longer Holiday Shopping Season (philadelphia.cbslocal.com)
Vintage Christmas Posts (thompsonfamily.typepad.com)
The Great Christmas Music Debate (byu.uloop.com)
Holidays 2012 – Part One (teamjohnnyusa.wordpress.com)
Happy Thanksgiving! (bellasugar.com)
Modern Seasonal Invitations: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas & More (apartmenttherapy.com)
Celebrate the Holidays with Lauerland Boutique! (lauerland.wordpress.com)
We All Have Special Traditions for the Holiday Season (amcpress.wordpress.com)
It Will Have Been Enough (rogerpassman.wordpress.com)

Random Thoughts, Religious, Thought of the day

The greatest gift one can get

October 21, 2012 Ray Barbier 2 Comments

Ah the Christmas shopping season seems to start earlier each year, Seems Christmas has become more of a shopping experience than an actual celebration of the birth of our savior Jesu s Christ. Commercialism of Christmas has slowly dragged our minds and hearts further away from the reason for the season. Though we all still celebrate Christmas and are thankful on that day for our savior, there is way too much emphasis on the presents. Who will buy or get the biggest and best gifts seems more important to some than the actual meaning of the day we celebrate. Nothing wrong with buying big gifts, all I am saying is the greatest gift one can get we all have received on that historical and holy day of the birth of our savior. We should remember to be thankful and celebrate the fact we were blessed on that day so many years ago. Remember the Manger, remember the life and remember the death along with the resurrection. Remember Our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. And try to remember the lessons Jesus taught us all.

Hope, Faith and the acceptance of God’s will is the path, Acceptance of Jesus as our savior is the way.

Ray Barbier

Kids say the darndest things! (dordtdiamond.wordpress.com)
The Struggle with Jesus Lordship (ptl2010.com)
Gifts at Christmas (sharonc72.wordpress.com)
Why Seek Ye the Living Amongst the Dead? (rockchristiancenter.wordpress.com)
Jesus the King (ejaife.wordpress.com)
Operation Christmas Child Pictures from Ecuador (faithfulprovisions.com)

Random Thoughts

Share your love and kindle hope in others and most of all keep the faith.

November 13, 2011 Ray Barbier Leave a comment

With the Holidays season upon us it is once again time to think about friends and family as well as the less fortunate people of the world. We should not only be thankful for our own blessings, we should be bringing blessings and joy to others. The gift of love goes a long way as well as the gift of charity, to be in service to our fellow humans goes even further. Holidays also seem to remind us of the those we lost and the dreams that never came into fruition. To reflect on those things is perfectly normal but to wallow in the loss and or grief is not. We should celebrate the things we have received and rejoice in the time we had with those we have lost. Remember the love they brought into your life and the change they made in both you and your life. Dreams that never become reality are but seeds for new dreams that could come true.

During this holiday season try to share your love and kindle hope in others and most of all keep the faith.

Love, Understanding, Charity, Faith and Compassion be the main theme in your daily life.

Happy Holidays
Raymond Barbier

Sharing Our Favorite Holiday Helpers (wholefoodsmarket.com)
12 Simple Ways to Support a Grieving Friend this Holiday Season (ididnotknowwhattosay.wordpress.com)

Books, E-Books, Software

E-Books The Future of Written Word

November 21, 2010 Ray Barbier Leave a comment

A Picture of a eBook — Image via Wikipedia

With the new trend in E-Books and readers there is many sites out there offering both free and purchasable EBooks. From amazon to MobiPocket and software from both of them to enable both your pc and your mobile devices to read e-books it seems the way of paper and ink are becoming like the way of cds and dvds. The possibilities are grand for the new digital trend especially in the education sector. Just imagine the collage student can carry all of his or her books in one SD card or on her laptop. This could also lower the cost of books for both the university/collage and the k-12 schools.

Though I have a feeling the publishing companies will either try and squash the possibilities of E-books for schools or make the cost of them the same to make it less advantageous to go digital. Either way I believe E-books will eventually be the norm both in ones house and in the schools across America.

Below are a few links that might be helpful to those interested in E-books.

E-Book Software

Amazon’s Kindle Software

MobiPocket ’s Software

E-Book Sites

Archive.org E-books / Texts