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CHARACTER COUNTS! was established to promote and teach the Six Pillars of Character.

12/28/2018

Your childhood is not defined by what you did or what happened to you, it’s the memories you choose to dwell on. Banish ideas that darken your past and you will brighten your future.

- Michael Josephson

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12/23/2018

CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS

TO YOUR CHILDREN: patience and a good example
TO YOUR PARENTS: Respect and gratitude
TO OTHER RELATIVES: Opportunities to get together
TO YOUR FRIENDS: Empathy and meaningful attention
TO THE LESS FORTUNATE: Charity and service
TO YOUR SPOUSE: Understanding and a commitment to have more fun
TO YOURSELF: Challenges and personal growth

Real generosity is doing something for others even when you’re certain you will get nothing back, even a thank you.

– Michael Josephson

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12/23/2018

Good intentions are simply not enough.
Our character is defined and our life is determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
- Michael Josephson

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12/23/2018

AN ECUMENICAL VIEW OF XMAS. Christianity’s Gift to the World

Though I am Jewish, I have always loved Christmas and what is commonly called the Christmas Spirit. Of course, I don’t mean the crassly commercialized version of the Christmas Spirit that stresses consumerism, but the spirit of love, forgiveness, family, friendship and — remember this phrase? — “Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men.” To those who celebrate Christmas, I hope you have an exceptionally joyful and meaningful holiday. To those who don’t, I hope you will shamelessly bask in and enjoy the warm light and good will generated by those who understand and live an authentic Christmas message.

My fondness and reverence for Christmas includes, but goes beyond, recognition of its enormous religious significance. I view Christmas as the gift of Christians to the world – a day dedicated to transcendent values like love, compassion, and charity, as both moral obligations and a source of joy. In 1905, Henry Van D**e wrote a poem called “Keeping Christmas” that captures the essence of Christmas spirit:

Are you willing to forget what you have done for others and remember what others have done for you;

to ignore what the world owes you, and to think about what you owe the world;

to see your fellowmen as real and to look behind their faces to their hearts;

to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness –

Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the desires of little children;

to remember the weakness and the loneliness of people who are growing old;

to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough;

to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without you waiting for them to tell you;

to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open;

Are you willing to believe that Love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death?

Are you willing to do all this even for a day?

Then you can Keep Christmas.

And if you keep it for a day, why not always?

12/20/2018

Attention all last minute shoppers!! Our 2019 Golden Ticket, which gets you one admission per movie time per day, will be discounted this week.
Purchase yours from the box office during normal show times Dec. 15- Dec 23 for just $85 ($100 regular price).
Give the gift of Entertainment all year long! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!