For Val, and his wife, Valerie, Valentine’s Day was one of the highlights of their year.

Val enjoyed getting a gigantic box of chocolate candy for Valerie, who took about six months to eat all of the sweet treats.

The candy, too provided a boon for Val, who received a chocolate-flavored kiss after every treat that Valerie ate. “Your chocolate kisses are the best part of Valentine’s Day all year long,” Val whispered into his wife’s ear.

Valentine’s Day was also about to become a special holiday for Venice and Veronica, the couple’s German shepherd dogs.

Veronica and her mate were very observant and extremely intelligent canines. Since they were able to discern that Valentine’s Day was nearing, the dogs decided to provide holiday gifts for each other.

Venice realized he couldn’t drive to the supermarket and purchase a box of candy for Veronica. And Veronica knew she couldn’t sit in front of a laptop computer and pen a love story featuring Venice as...

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Nick and his wife, Nikki, were deeply in love.

The couple rarely disagreed on major or minor issues, because they were constantly saying nice things about each other.

“You’re the most handsome husband in the world, Nick,” grinned Nikki.

“No, I’m not,” Nick blushed. “But you, Sweetheart, are the world’s most beautiful woman. You always will be.”

“You’re always saying that,” Nikki replied. “And I do appreciate the thought. But right now, I would much rather say something nice about you. Like how you’re always volunteering to wash the dishes after we eat a meal.”

“It’s really no big deal,” Nick protested. “After all, we do have a dishwasher, you know.”

“I know,” Nikki grinned, “but it’s the fact that you want to do it for me.”

“I love doing things to please you,” said Nick. “When you’re happy, I’m happy.”

“I know that, Nick,” said Nikki. ”That’s one of the things I love the most about you….the fact that you’re always going out...

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Clarissa and her husband, Charles, had been married for 9 1/2 years.

On their wedding day, Charles had promised Clarissa that for their 10th wedding anniversary the couple would celebrate with a cruise to the Caribbean.

Over the years, Clarissa had for forgotten about her husband’s promise. Charles, however, kept the promise at the top of his 10-year to-do list. Every day he prayed, “Lord, please help me to earn enough money to take Clarissa on this cruise.

As a high school teacher, Charles earned a small salary, so he asked the Lord to provide the extra money he needed for the cruise. The Lord opened the door for Charles to work part time as a taxi driver.

Charles worked as a taxi driver two evenings each week. Although he was now working two jobs, Charles still wasn’t able to save enough money to pay for all the trip’s expenses.

“Father,” Charles prayed, “I would appreciate it if you would provide another job for me. I just need to earn a littl...

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Father Time decided to send personal messages to a few of the people whom he felt truly appreciated his work with minutes and seconds.

“Only a very small percentage of this world’s population actually realize how hard I work,” Father Time wrote to a senior citizen named Felicia. “And you are one of those special people.”

In a return letter to Father Time, Felicia wrote, “Dear Father Time, thank you for taking few moments out of your busy, busy schedule to write. I’ve lived long enough myself to have a healthy appreciation of minutes and seconds. I believe it’s just as important to be as frugal with our time as it is with our money.”

Father Time’s letter to Fred, a construction worker, praised its recipient for blessing the community’s churches and non-profit organizations each year with a large number of volunteer hours. “You are the perfect example of Christian love,” Father Time wrote. “You go out of your way to show God’s love to others. Thank you, too, for b...

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Santa selected Regina and Reginald to accompany him on his around-the-world Christmas Eve trip.

“Thanks for choosing us to ride with you,” Regina said.

“Yeah, thanks, Santa,” echoed Reginald. “This is a dream come true.”

“A dream come true for me, too,” agreed Regina. “In fact, I’ve been praying about this for a couple of years.”

“I have a job for each of you this evening,” Santa said. “Regina, I want you to pray over all of the Christmas presents that we leave at people’s homes, and that Jesus will be glorified on Christmas Day around the world.”

“What’s my job, Santa?,” Reginald asked.

“Your job, Reginald, is to keep an eye on the skies to make sure we don’t crash into anything,” Santa said. “It doesn’t hurt to be extra careful when flying these days.”

Not long after the sleigh became airborne, Reginald yelled, “Look o...

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Sarah, who worked as a nurse at the local nursing home, loved to sing Christmas carols.

She work up every morning with a song...a Christmas song… in her heart.

The Christ-child-in-a-manger-songs. Rudolph-and-Santa songs. Christmas tree-decorating songs. Sweethearts-at-Christmas songs. Christmas wedding songs.

The local newspaper learned about Sarah’s love of Christmas songs and wanted to publish a story about her. Sarah agreed to meet Sandra, the newspaper’s ace Christmas reporter, to discuss her love of Christmas songs.

Sandra, who immensely enjoyed Christmas songs, too, eagerly anticipated her interview with Sarah. The women met at a Christmas café, which was open year round.

Christmas music played softly in the background as Sandra interviewed Sarah. “So why do you enjoy Christmas music so much?,” Sandra asked.

“Every time I hear a Christmas song, I think about the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, and how he came into the world to save us fro...

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Donovan and Durward were cowboys who lived on a large ranch in the southwestern United States.

Most of the hired hands preferred sleeping in the bunkhouse at night. Durward and Donovan, however, under the stars every time they could.

For Durward and Donovan, sleeping under the stars was very enjoyable. “This reminds me of when I was growing up,” said Donovan. “Eatin’ beans and drinkin’ fresh coffee.”

Durward possessed similar childhood memories. “Same here,” he agreed. “But I never learned to appreciate the taste of coffee. I always preferred a nice big cup of cool, refreshing water from the nearby spring.”

“And you’ve carried that tradition over into your adulthood,” Donovan observed.

Regardless of the temperature or weather conditions, the two cowpokes relished their time outdoors. Both of them felt they were in a perpetual church service, continually offering praise unto God.

“The music is so natural and refreshing,” said Donovan, making not...

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Millions of people around the world looked at Santa as the supreme Christmas icon.

Santa, however, reserved the top spot in his big-as-Christmas heart for Jesus Christ, the reason for the season.

Both Santa and his wife, Mrs. Santa, favored Christmas as their holiday of choice. Also, both realized that without the birth of the Christ-child, the Christmas holiday season would have no real value.

“Jesus left the majesty and splendor of heaven,” said Mrs. Santa. “He came to this world full of sin because of the love he had for those who lived in the world.”

“And while He was carrying His burden of love, He was also bearing the weight of sin for every person who has ever lived, as well as those who have not even been born,” Santa added.

“I have an idea, Santa,” said Mrs. Santa. “Why don’t we use our special printing presses to provide free Bibles for every person in the world.”

“We can sure do that, Honey,” said Santa. “But we definitely won’t be a...

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Each year, Michelle went out of her way to prepare a Thanksgiving feast for her family.

Michelle’s preparation began during the summer months. In July, she cooked her pre-Thanksgiving feast. For Michelle, this was the highlight of the year. She prepared a huge turkey with all the trimmings, because that’s what she wanted.

During the pre-Thanksgiving feast, Michelle asked all family members to spend some time following the meal making a list of everything they would like for her to include in November’s feast.

“Feel free to list as many items as you wish,” Michelle encouraged them.

Following the pre-Thanksgiving feast, everyone gathered in the den to watch professional football and complete their Thanksgiving lists.

Max, Michelle’s oldest son, listed seven items on his list. “Here you go, Mom,” Max wrote. “I hope you notice that I only have seven items listed for you to prepare. I want homemade rolls, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, homemade ...

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Thomas had a secret sin.

Thomas attended church regularly, but he secretly visited Internet porn sites. He made several attempts at stopping his behavior. Soon, however, his fingers followed the direction of his mind, and he once again found himself on those sites.

One evening, Thomas’ wife, Tomasina, said, “We both must get up early tomorrow morning to go to work. We need to go to bed, so we can get plenty of sleep.”

“I’ll be there soon,” Thomas promised. Tomasina went on to bed and, soon she was asleep.

Time got away from Thomas. Two hours later, totally-exhausted, he slipped out of his chair onto the floor, sleeping like a baby.

At 5 a.m. the following morning, Tomasina awoke and Thomas was not in bed next to her. She walked into the den and found her husband asleep on the floor.

Still open was the last Internet porn site visited by Thomas. Tomasina began weeping. “How cou...

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