About once a month I send out a Real Estate related newsletter via email to my contact database. Yesterday and today I have received many responses that my newsletter should be a blog post.... not a bad idea. And just for clarity - my real estate branding/logo is of a homegrown tomato - because i am a native Nashvillian and have branded myself as the Homegrown Realtor. Here ya go....
Tis the season to be jolly! And yet this season leaves a lot of our fellow man singing the blues. Foreclosures are still big news, as are unemployment, deaths of our troops, and the current political battles over taxes. Let's be honest, sometimes it is just flat out impossible to be jolly. The best way to improve our lives is to focus inward. I believe we create peace when we seek it. And I believe that joy is a choice, no matter what circumstances we may be facing.
In the past few weeks, my blog, my facebook page and my inbox have been filled with prayer requests. I've carried a lot in my heart lately and lifted up numerous prayers....ranging from relationships between mothers and daughters, sicknesses, surgeries, sons on the front line in Afghanistan, sudden job losses, deaths, and news of betrayals. This morning my children and I decorated our Christmas tree and as I sit here in my home office and smell the fresh sappy pine, I just cannot help but think of the people I know today who are fresh out of jolly. I'm reminded of the season, and the reason. If you celebrate Christmas you already know that the birth of Christ ushered in a season of hope. Where would we be without hope? So....if you cannot find your jolly today, my prayer is you will latch on to the hope ~ and hang on for dear life.
If you are jolly today, my encouragement to you is to spread it around. Pour it out like syrup all over someone else. Sticky sweet is a.o.k. and totally acceptable this time of year.
On the homegrown-front, I am so excited to have just sold a house with one of my buyer clients, and have two fresh listings with a couple of others coming up in Janurary. I'm keeping busy! I have also just celebrated the first offiicial Board of Directors meeting for the charitable organization I have started. And I've wiped tons of runny noses. (just keepin' it real). This might be the appropriate time to mention also that I wrestled a Christmas tree and won, although just barely.
Although I sell houses for a career, I'm well aware that a house cannot enrich a life. Only love can do that.
Love more!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all!
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