LIFE --1 Hour At A Time!

(I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.) Artist unknown

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LOVE CAME TO EARTH ON CHRISTMAS DAY

It has always bothered me since I was little, that Jesus didn't get a gift on His own birthday, so I told myself that when I got my own family, there would be a gift for Jesus. We started even before we had children. Instead of New Years's resolutions, each family member writes on a piece of paper what they will do to improve themselves spiritually during the next year. That is their gift to Jesus. They put it in the box and we wrap it and put it under the tree. On Christmas Eve, when the kids open their traditional Christmas Eve gift of pajamas, and we read the Christmas story out loud, we would open the gift we made for Jesus, then put the paper in our room on the wall all year long, to remember the spiritual goal for that year.

Christmas has become MUCH too materialistic. It has lost its original meaning. Now that there is a financial crisis, I am hoping people will lighten up, not go into debt for just one day, that they will make gifts for each other, do more for each other, do more service projects.

The man who got trampled in the doorway of Walmart in the USA on the big sale day after Thanksgiving is one big sign of how overboard and out of line people have gotten with this sacred occasion. It doesn't even resemble the peaceful, quiet, sharing, spiritually uplifting day that it started out to be, and stayed that way until about 1900. Time to turn back the clock to a gentler time. Give Jesus the gift of yourself this year and every year.

Blessings,
Bluebirdy

(Jesus Is The Reason For The Season)

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TV commercials are running often, trying to teach the public to sneeze and cough into their elbow, not into their hand. When you cough/sneeze into your hand, the germs from your hands get onto everything you touch and spreads disease. I haven't gotten this habit yet. Old habits are hard to break.

I just thought my flu was hanging on longer than usual because of having a chronic illness. Finally the constant coughing was wearing me out so I went to the Dr. today. Turns out I have pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma. I was given an antibiotic shot, 2 different inhalers (puffers), a $40 cough medicine (that is an insane price here where medicine is free) and I'm back on oxygen. She said I'm probably too sick for this understaffed hospital, and could be a better nurse to myself at home since I have the oxygen at home. I guess since I always feel weak and sick, the fatigue of pneumonia wasn't too much different. So now...what are the benefits of this? Gotta find the silver lining of each gray cloud.
1) I can stay home and try to care for Mom, keep an eye on her.
2) I'm glad I have it and not Mom. I would rather be sick than watch someone I love be sick.
3) Most of the medicine and Dr. visit were free.

It's now 8 hours since I took the $40 cough medicine and I'm coughing worse than before. I took some cheap stuff to try to work, some cough drops constantly seem to help most of all, coating my throat with its sugar. Frustrating. Oh well...could be worse I guess.

Now...to figure out how to get all the gifts wrapped in 5 days for the mailing deadline of Dec. 5. OH GOSH I'M GLAD I DID ALL THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR!

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