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Do. Not. Give. Up. Giving up creates hopelessness. And hopelessness creates a huge black hole of depression and deadness in you. When you quit caring about anything in life, you stop living, even though your heart continues beating.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.You’ve heard this a lot of different ways. “I’m in your debt.” Or, “I owe you.” Or “How can I ever repay you?

Leftovers from last week’s suggestions for holiday gift giving: MISCELLANEOUS GUIDELINES:1. Husband concedes that writing thank you notes for the entire household and buying gifts for husband’s business associates are not the Wife’s job.2.

What is the best Christmas you remember? Was it when you were a child? Was it when you received the gift you wanted? Was it when you received a lot of gifts? Maybe it was when you had a special meal? Maybe it was when family members gathered who are no longer alive? Was it when you were younger?

The last Christmas I spent with my dad was my most memorable. We were sitting around the table and talking about unforgettable Christmases. My dad said that the one he would never forget was in 1944.

No story can match the Christmas story.Mary was just an ordinary girl but she was special in the eyes of God. She was someone God knew he could choose to enter the world as the baby Jesus. Mary and husband to be Joseph followed the leadership of God and were willing vessels to be used of God.

(Note: I promised Christine Provence, my 10-11-12 grade English teacher at Holdenville High School, that I would run this column every year. She liked it better than any of the seemingly endless papers I wrote in her classes).

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Slow Down the Christmas rushI’d like to invite you to join my campaign to slow down the Christmas rush.

Here we go again. It is pretty sad when you talk about things when you don’t know what some of the facts are.I know one public official who is not trying to “feather his own nest”. He is not hauling black-top millings on public drives. Those are his millings.

According to the Word of God, Jesus will come back to Earth to destroy the ungodly and wicked humans that survive the deadly events which will start when Jesus breaks each of the seven seals of the Book of God.