Merry Christmas 2013

Please accept my best wishes for a happy and successful new year as well.

The following Christmas greeting that I started sending to friends and family in 2002, has now become:

• my daily objective;
• my lifetime motto;
• a goal that I renew each year.

As I pray for peace in the world, I realize the only answer for real and lasting peace is:

• that peace within;
• that it only comes from God;
• and that it must begin with me.

I am going to continue to try to do my part in stopping bigotry, hatred, and prejudice, by practicing love and tolerance.

I may not be all that I should be, but then I am not what I once was, and with God's help, I am not what I shall become.