If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do.
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God Bless you!
God Bless you!”

I love that Christmas is this week. Last Saturday, we spent the day with our neice and nephew and their family. What a wonderful day! We sang Christmas carols, we shared past Christmas experiences, and we just enjoyed being together.

Being together is what Christmas is about. My husband and I drove down with our grandchildren in our car. It was delightful. Jakob read to us and I worked on a presentation. We talked and enjoyed the journey together. It was a long drive and at the end, everyone was happy to have arrived.

We shared a meal, swam (the brave ones, but not me. It was too cold for me). When it was time to go, it was hard for the children to say goodbye. But, we know that we will have many more glorious days to spend with them while they live so close.

Christmas is about love. Love from our Heavenly Father to send our Savior. Love from our Savior to make it possible for us to repent and return to live with Heavenly Father. Love from family and friends as we share time, talents and gifts with one another.

Christmas is coming…Are you ready?

I love that it takes so many people to work together to play a song, unlike the piano, which can be played alone. Don’t get me wrong, I love that I can sit down at the piano and play when I am happy or sad or excited or mad and do something constructive with my anger or express my joy or sorrow.

But, there is more to this blog than just talking about the beautiful team of music of hand bells. There is a message here somewhere, it may not be easy to find, so here goes: Don’t wait to do the things you want to do, do them now. Otherwise, you may end up a grandmother and not know how to play hand bells. There is no better time.

We feel so busy. Life has many things that keep our time occupied. Learning is something we need to continue to do for a lifetime. Learning keeps our brain active and can slow the progression of degenerative diseases. Learning keeps life exciting. We can share our love of learning with our family and friends. We can take classes together (our family took a sign language class together recently). Our goals may have to change, but learning is always is important.

Because of illness, my hands don’t work as they once did. I do not have the strength or the coordination to play the hand bells (there may be some who would question that I ever had the coordination). Learning, however, is an important aspect of my life. I am learning to write blogs and write courses and I am learning to be consistently learning. I even toy with the idea of going back to school. My Aunt Gwen went back to school and earned her degree after all her children were raised. Perhaps, when my youngest goes away to college, I will go back to college too. Who knows?

What have you learned today? And what will you learn tomorrow?