YOURS, MINE and OURS
Kiwanis Family Bulletin of the

KIWANIS CLUB OF ST. MARTINVILLE
December 19, 2007  •  Vol. 16 - No. 11

Editors/Publishers: Peggy Hardy, Carol Lagarde and Gerry LeBlanc

and occasionally, Marti Harrell

BOARD MEETING
THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7:00 p.m.

• Builders Club Meeting:  2^nd Friday of the month @ Trinity Gym @ 1:00 p.m.
• Key Club Meeting:  Every Thursday in the library @ 11:20 a.m.

DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS: Dennis Arton (Mary)12/20; Kevin Dugas 12/27;  Adelia Mercier 12/12; Bertha Bernard 12/18
AND ANNIVERSARIES:  Elaine & Ted St. Julien 12/1

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Christmas comes once a year – and this year it comes on a Tuesday.  So does New Year’s Day!
With that in mind, our club will NOT have meetings
on Wednesday, 12/26/07 nor on Wednesday, 1/2/08. 
 We’ll see you next on the 9^th of January, 2008. 
Hope 'Tit Bonhomme Janvier brings you lots of good things if Santa hadn’t passed at your house!

THOUGHT/QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 1 Corinthians 13--A Christmas Version   --Source Unknown 

If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I’m just another decorator.

If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family, I’m just another cook.

If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it profits me nothing.

If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday  parties and sing in the choir’s cantata but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.

Love stops the cooking to hug the child. Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband. Love is kind, though harried and tired. Love doesn’t envy another’s home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.

Love doesn’t yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way.  Love doesn’t give only to those who are able to give in return but rejoices in giving to those who can’t.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails.  Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but giving the gift of love will endure.

Merry Christmas and lots of love to you and yours!   See you next year!

The First Object of Kiwanis: To give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life.

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