Merry Christmas

Colors & Meanings: Cool

Cool colors make people and environment feel cool and stylish? Let's see the their meaning for a clearer picture and better understanding.


Blue

Blue is a very popular color and can be found in many places; sky blue, ocean blue. It shows the vastness, calm and wondering feelings, yet also deep and complex. Darker blue brings out the wisdom, maturity of a person. In design, too much blue give a moody and depressing emotion. No wonder we have “Monday Blue”. Blue symbolizes calmness, expansive, vast, reliability, dependant, trustworthiness, wisdom, maturity, depression, moodiness, spirituality, sacred, deep, complicity, sophistication, mysterious, dreamy.

Green

Green is also another popular color used, especially in design. Leaves are in green, so is money. Green is favored by many people as it represents harmony and luck; the green four leaf clover.
Studies suggest that it improves vision as well, so look out the window to your garden after too much eye stressing. But do not wear too much green as it shows the strong jealousy and the envy in a person; sour lime or the green eye monster.Green symbolizes nature, environmental, health, growth, renewal, fertility, refreshing, smoothing, monetary, luck, jealousy, balance, harmony, stability.

Purple

Purple is a combination of red and blue. Red a warm, focusing, active, driven energy in contrast of blue, cool, calm, expansive, Purple is often relaxing and in relation to nature. It helps releasing of mind, which allows inspiration and imagination, which is favored by many artists. Royal and noble classes are represented by purple. Is that how we come to have purple gold in this modern century? Purple symbolizes spirituality, nobility, royalty, luxury, creativity, imagination, inspiration, freewill.

Colors & Meanings: Warm

Red

Red is the warmest color in the palette and is attention grabbing. It produces a biological response by quickening the pulse and increasing respiration rate. Thus, it is an emotionally intense color of passion and love, which defines the red in hearts and roses.
Wearing red will show power and confidence and brings out the sensual look in a woman. As red defines power and its association with hot, fiery and danger, avoid red when it comes to anything in relation to fights, violence, quarrels, confrontation, etc. Red symbolizes sexuality, passion, love, lust, desire, confidence, power, leadership, anger, aggression, danger, violence, vitality, survival, prosperity, joy.

Pink

Pink is a gentle, calm, quiet and relaxing color. It shows the innocent of romance and brings out the charm of a female. Pale pink is a wonderful color to wear on date as it relaxes emotion, making its wearer more approachable. Brighter pink is an energy stimulant and draws attention, often wear by younger girls. Pink symbolizes youth, fun, excitement, friendship, love, romance, charm, tenderness, femininity, sweet, relaxing, calm, peace.

Yellow

Yellow is the sunny, bright and cheerful color. Brings happiness and improves intelligence of one self as it enhances concentration. Due to its brightness, yellow can be overpowering at times, alerting and cautioning warnings; caution signs are in yellow.
Pale, shallow yellow gives a filthy, dirty feeling and also represents cowardice and deceit, so don’t be yellow. Yellow symbolizes cheerful, brightness, dirtiness, cowardice, deceit, intelligence, alertness, caution, overpowering.

Orange

While bright orange can be attention grabbing, orange shows the youth, cheerful and energetic side of a person. Orange always reminds of the autumn leaves. It is very appetite and emotions stimulating. Unlike red, orange is less aggressive and much more smoothing, not overpowering; cools down aggression and stimulates drive when necessary.Orange symbolizes mood-lightening, cheerfulness, youth, energetic, enthusiasm, fun, healthy, attention-grabbing, sweet, tasteful, adventurous, sporty, outgoing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year! I thank all of you friends and folks for your warm New Year wishes and visiting my blog. On this first of a new year 2010 I pray that all of us lead a happy, peaceful and prosperous life all year round. I just found a poem by English Poet Lord Tennyson about embracing a new year. I just want to share it with all of you.

Ring Out, Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkenss of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

Christmas Words

There has been a a criticism of Christmas celebrations are becoming highly materialistic in nature and the true meaning of Christmas is lost. There is only exchange of gift rather the warmth of compassion, sending of cards perfunctorily rather than out of love, hosting Christmas parties instead of reaching out the hands of help to the unprivileged ones. I just read few stories in GatewaytoJesus which is actually not a story but first hand accounts of some people who realized that there are angels on this earth. One of the story is about a mother of six who had been a state of misery and poverty and has to go through much difficulties to earn the livelihood. Christmas was just round the corner and the mother had almost no money to buy gifts for the children. She managed to arrange some old toys which she painted and decided to give the children as Christmas gifts. Miraculously on the night of Christmas Eve, while returning home from her work, she found her car loaded with Christmas presents, food and clothes for her family! Indeed, there are angels beside us who take care of us but we don't see them all the time. I was surfing the net and found some nice Christmas prayers that I would like to share with all of you.

A PRAYER OF THANKS
Andrew wilson

Heavenly Father, thank you for sending your Son to earth as a baby so many years ago. Thank you that He paid the punishment for my sins by dying on the cross. And thank you that He rose again to prove that death was truly defeated. I place my trust in You to be my Savior. Guide me through the dark times of my life and give me courage to live for You. Amen
THANK YOU, LORD,
for the gift of Your love.
May I be a shining
example of that love to others.
Abhi