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Kim Fields Celebrates Christmas in “Holiday Love” and HER NEW BABY!!!

 

kimfieldsHello World,

After today, Christmas is just two days away! Yay!

What is Christmas without holiday specials? One of my favorite actresses Kim Fields is back with another installment of “Holiday Love,” a Christmas program that debuted in 2010 and has been broadcast on television every Christmas season since then. Now, she is taking “Holiday Love” to the Internet. “Holiday Love: The Rebirth” is a new installment of the program. Here is a brief excerpt of what Fields said about the special in her interview with Rolling Out…

“Absolutely! I actually play myself and the film is centered around my pregnancy, the birth of Christ and the nativity. So the idea of us having a newborn right around that time inspired us. So basically my husband had the idea of what if we had me pregnant and I have this horrible dream that I’m directing a reality TV show called “Lifestyle of the Pregnant and Fabulous.”

So it’s a fictitious holiday special where the celebrities are brought together to compete to have their child be born on Christmas to be the baby in the nativity scene at the All Star Nativity Concert. So, comedian Gary Owens plays our producer who puts it all together and my husband plays his assistant. Debbie Morgan plays one of the contestants as a surrogate and there’s just lots of funny bits and pieces to the story.”

According to ABC News, the idea came to her when she discovered she was pregnant with her second child at 44 years old. (There is hope for us older brides!)

When the actress-director made the big announcement on the syndicated talk show “The Real” on July 31, she was shocked to see it go viral.

“It had such a big impact that we just started brainstorming,” Fields said of her and Morgan, a fellow actor. “We knew that I would still be pregnant by God’s grace and would deliver right before Christmas.”

And according to Us Weekly, she gave birth earlier this month – Dec. 3!

Fields and the Broadway actor named their new bundle of joy Quincy Xavier. He weighed in at 8 lbs., 8 oz. “We are so blessed and grateful to God for this newest gift to our family,” the couple tells Us.

“Holiday Love: The Rebirth” will air tonight at  8 p.m. EST on HOLIDAYLOVE.TV. Also, I interviewed Kim Fields previously on After the Altar Call…Below is a preview of the special…

Holiday Love Trailer from Ogden Bass on Vimeo.

Any thoughts?

P.S. Have you seen Queen Latifah perform “Christmas in Hollis” with D.M.C.? Check it out below…One of my all-time fave Christmas jams!!!

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Seven Scriptures to Remind Us that Jesus is the Real Reason for the Season…(Repost)

Hello World,

Editor’s Note: It’s the week before Christmas, and I have yet to mention the most important holiday on my blog so I thought I would repost this particular post from last year because it still true…Enjoy…

I don’t know about you but December always seems to fly by…Between making Christmas lists, shopping with the masses, sending out Christmas greetings via e-mail or snail mail, going to Christmas parties and other events, preparing for the New Year and regular life stuff, it seems there is never enough time to do it all and so I almost look forward to January when life is back to its regular pace…

Our first Christmas as a married couple...

Our first Christmas as a married couple…

And if you noticed, I haven’t mentioned Jesus at all…That is because with all I have to or want to do, I can forget that the birth of Jesus, God’s precious gift to mankind, is the real reason for the season…And so to prepare my heart for this season and hopefully help you prepare your heart for this season too, I have decided to list seven scriptures that take the focus off of the worldly expressions of the Christmas season and help us to focus on Jesus…

1.  “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”(which means “God with us”). Matthew 1:23 I just love that Immanuel means “God with us.”  Jesus was born so that God could be with us…Remember that the next time you feel alone because you are not…God is with us!

2. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 Look how much we are loved by God! He sacrificed His one and only Son! What have we sacrificed for God lately? Something to remember and act on at this time of the year…

3. “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17 Every time I see Christmas lights, I’m going to remember that God is the father of heavenly lights and that every good and perfect gift is from Him…I’m feeling better about the Christmas season already…

4. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 Although we will never be free of sin this side of Heaven, we can still accept God’s gift of eternal life with Jesus Christ who helps us not to sin…

5. “…Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have…” 1 Peter 3:15 At some point during this Christmas season, we have to know that everyone around us does not know the real reason for the season…I hope I’m ready when the opportunity arises for me to tell somebody about my Lord and Savior…

6. “Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4…Do  you want the desires of your heart? Of course :) Then we have to delight ourselves in the Lord and His purposes…Now, this does not mean that we send up a list of what we want and then He delivers gifts like He is some Santa Claus in the sky…No, this verse means that mysteriously when we align ourselves with the Lord, His desires for us become our desires…and then we get the desires of our heart because they are His desires for us too…

7. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.” Luke 2:14…This time of the year especially I have to make every effort to give glory to God and live at peace with others…I wish those in government would remember that…

Any thoughts?

P.S. Aside from going to church, decorating Christmas trees, shopping, getting Christmas cards is also part of the fun of Christmas…Below is a cute video Christmas card from the Holderness Family…Can you believe their last name is so close to my family’s last name? We may be distant relatives…

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A Modern-Day Joseph…RIP Nelson Mandela…

Hello World,

Every once in a while, the words of the Bible become three-dimensional, playing out right in front of you. Since Nelson Mandela’s death was announced last Thursday, I have been thinking about his contributions to humanity. Not only was he a world-class freedom fighter that will remembered among the greatest of men in history, his life was also a testament to God’s word. One of my favorite verses in the Bible is Genesis 50:20….

“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many peoples hould be kept alive, as they are today.”

These are the words of Joseph to his brothers after they discover that he is no longer in prison where he had been for years, in part, due to their actions…Instead of being a prisoner, he was now a leader in the Egyptian government able to help his brothers and his family during a time of famine…I was listening to a radio broadcast in which Nelson Mandela’s biographer was interviewed. He said how Mandela’s imprisonment of 27 years, refined him as a human being…I wonder had Mandela never been imprisoned, would he have been able to unite his country after he was released and become South Africa’s first black president…Something to ponder when evil is allowed in our lives…

Thank you Mandela for the example of your incredible life…

If you are in Atlanta and want to pay tribute to Mandela, the World Affairs Council of Atlanta and Morehouse College will be holding a memorial service for Mandela on Wednesday, Dec. 11  7-9 p.m. The memorial service will be held at Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College which is located at 830 Westview Dr SW 30314.

Any thoughts?

P.S. Will you be seeing the movie “Mandela?” I will…