FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 32 - I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

 

I’ll be home for Christmas

Written By Walter Kent; Buck Ram, Kim Gannon

Performed By Frank Sinatra

 

I'm dreamin' tonight of a place I love
Even more than I usually do
And although I know it's a long road back
I promise you

I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents under the tree

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light beams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light beams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
If only in my dreams

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM INDIA

India (Bengali)

Shuvo Naba Barsha

India (Hindi)

Shub Naya Baras

India (Marathi)

Shub Naya Varsh

India (Urdu)

Naya Saal Mubarak Ho

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – RUNAWAY CHRISTMAS BRIDE (2017)

 

Kate Paulson (Cindy Busby) has stood at the altar, and said, “I do” to the man of her dreams, Alex Atkins (Mark Milburn) but soon after they exchanged vows, Alex revealed a devastating family secret, about a secret trust fund triggered by their wedding.

Hurt and shocked by this betrayal, Kate has no choice but to leave the groom at the church and run away.

Needing time to heal, Kate heads to ski resort where she was to have her honeymoon and stay over Christmas.

However, at the resort she meets Jason (Travis Milne), a former Olympic downhill ski hopeful, and as they get to know each other there is a mutual attraction and she falls for him just when she thought she'd never love again.

But as things start to heat up between them, bridegroom Alex and his family show up followed by her family and that’s when things get complicated and the fun starts in earnest.

 

FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 34 - MARY, DID YOU KNOW?

 

Mary, Did You Know?

Words by Mark Lowry
Music by Buddy Greene
Sung by Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd

Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy
Would one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy
Would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your Baby Boy
Has come to make you new;
This Child that you delivered
Will soon deliver you.

Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy
Will give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy
Will calm the storm with His hand?
Did you know that your Baby Boy
Has walked where Angels trod?
When you kiss your Little Baby,
You kiss the Face of God!

Oh, Mary, did you know?
Oh, Mary, did you know?

The blind will see, the deaf will hear,
The dead will live again.
The lame will leap, the dumb will speak
The praises of the lamb!

Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy
Is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy

Will one day rule the nations?
Did you know that your Baby Boy
Is Heaven's Perfect Lamb?
This sleeping Child you're holding

Is the Great I Am!

A QUESTION OF POOH

 

Its Christmas time again, as if anyone could fail to notice.

Even without leaving my house I can see more than half a dozen house decorated to the hilt.

Every coloured light imaginable, Santa’s on the roof or climbing a ladder, sleighs, elves, snowmen, bells, stars baubles and last but by no means least standing almost four feet high that perennial favourite Winnie the Pooh.

Wait a minute though you might well be saying what does Pooh have to do with Christmas? Well every other house seems to have one so there must be something in it.

I don’t recall mention of him in the bible and in the many nativity plays I have seen over the years he was conspicuous by his absence and although there is a donkey it’s not Eeyore.

The stable did not house Piglet and the wise men did not travel from the east with Tigger baring gifts of Huney.

Nor in any of the Christmas traditions around the world is there a single reference to Pooh as one of Santa’s helpers.

There’s Black Peter, The Jolly Elf even the devil figure Krampus but no Pooh but people still give him pride of place on their lawns at Christmas.

Go figure. 

AUSTRIA

In Austria St. Nicholas, is honored throughout the land and It is said that as a reward for his generosity God allowed him to return to earth each year to bring gifts to all the good children of the world.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN PALM SPRINGS (2014)

 

There are a couple of problems though: her two kids who will do anything to get mom and dad back together again - even if they must hack mom's phone or pose as a secretary to make sure dad's in Palm Springs too. And father Joe who'll do anything to charm his way back into Jessica's life.

Joe and Jessica Brady (Patrick Muldoon and Dina Meyer) live separately in New York, but their kids Dylan and Zoey (Devin Lawrence and Kirstin Dorn) are determined to reunite the family.

Jessica worked for a PR firm and her and her boss Teddy (Ian Ziering) had a big presentation for a municipal campaign in Palm Springs, while Author Joe has a meeting arranged in Los Angeles to discuss his first-ever Californian publication opportunity.

The kids however have other plans and posing as a representative from Joe’s Agents office they rearrange his meeting to be in Palm Springs.

But the kids had their work cut out even with their parents in the same place and in the same hotel and it takes all the manipulation they can muster to get their parents to even sit at the same table as well as their best efforts to sabotage any advances Teddy might make towards Jessica.

In the end it required the intervention of hotel employee Gabriel (Bill Cobbs) with his angelic powers to seal the deal.