The New Life, Inc.

Dear Children,

Being able to speak is a wonderful thing. Use it to the fullest and do not abuse it.  But I want to warn you speech can be very destructive; you can injure people with your words. The things you speak have a way of returning and hurting you. Learn to speak well and it will bless you. Our words are like seeds that we plant and bear good or bad fruit.

There is a lot of crude speech that you will have to put up with, but you are not to get caught up with the practice of it. Some may think it is smart to be crude; it is not. It is demeaning to those you speak to and demeaning to you as well.

I remember something the Lord told me several years ago and I have never forgotten it. He said, ”The Holy Spirit is a gentleman, everything He says or does is in a gentlemanly way”. As a result of what the Lord said many times down through the years I have spoken and acted differently. My dear sons and daughters I encourage you be gentleman and gentlewomen all the days of your life.

I also want you to use this wonderful speech the Lord has given you, to speak with the Lord God often. I don’t know what kind of relationship you have with God I hope and pray that it is a close one.

Whatever you believe regarding God and the Lord Jesus, I want you to speak to Him often. This you are to do.  It is very important! Speak to Him about every problem, ask for His help and advice. He will hear you and He will help you. I firmly believe the reason He gave us speech was so that we could communicate with Him as well as with one another. He has saved me many times down through the years.

My dear children with our speech we bring forth life or death, make friends or enemy’s.  If you realize that your speech is not always bringing forth good fruit ask the Holy Spirit to help you.  The tongue is very hard to control. The Holy Spirit will nudge you just before you speak and when He does; pay attention and be silent and He will tell you to say something different and you will learn to speak life.

I pray the Holy Spirit bless you in this way.

You are always in our prayers.

God bless you.

We love you,

Mom and Dad Nault

My Dear Children,

My prayer is that you will have a wonderful time celebrating the birth of Jesus and that you will not forget that ( Jesus, is the reason for the season)!

I remember our Christmas times when I was a child and how excited I would be when we would go out and pick the Christmas tree, out in our pasture.  At times there was a lot of snow but what fun we had trying to decide which was the most perfect one.

I must confess that I did not give a lot of thought to Jesus or his birthday. We would sing Christmas songs and I think we always had small statues of the birth of Christ with the sheep and the shepherds. I was all excited with the decorations and the tree and all the special little things around like candy, fruit and nuts, which we did not have very often. I was always in a hurry to see what was in my stocking. We all had a stocking hanging somewhere and Christmas morning it was always full.

A couple of years ago someone was telling me that when they were a child if they were naughty their stocking would have a lump of coal in it. I am glad that Jesus didn’t give me a lump of coal because I was naughty, He forgave me instead! What a way to destroy a child’s Christmas.

My dear children don’t ever give someone a lump of coal give them a little love and grace instead.

My dad would give me a dollar or two to buy presents and I would go to the dime store.  What fun I had buying little things for my family. I spent a long time looking and deciding what to buy for my brother and sister’s for a nickel, dime or a quarter at the most and then be very secretive to get them home and wrap up each little gift.

As soon as the tree was up, I would hide these gifts on the tree. Other gifts would begin to appear and I would try to see who they were for. As I look back now, that week or two before Christmas was so filled with expectation.  And after all the gifts were given out and opened it was kind of a letdown.

Christmas morning I just couldn’t wait for everyone to get up so we could open the presents. It seemed like they multiplied overnight. I realize now we did not have a lot of money so all our big gifts were clothes that we needed for school and the winter. I remember the little gifts from my family many of which were homemade, Christmas was wonderful!

Dear family I want you to know we didn’t lack anything. I expect my dad would have liked to do a lot more for us but I want him to know he did enough. We did not lack anything our house was filled with love, peace and joy all the things that are important.

The angels sang Joy to the world, we had it.  Jesus said peace I give you, we had it.  Jesus said love one another and we did.  All these years have gone by and we still have peace and joy in our family. Thank you Jesus for your wonderful gifts given so freely.

Now I can say I am much more aware that Christmas is the birthday celebration of our Savior Jesus Christ and the gift from Him is eternal life.

My dear children make sure you receive the gift of spiritual life there is no greater gift and it is there for the asking.  

You are in my thoughts and prayers every day.

All my love,

Dad