Someone called me(at least twice)to tell me(brag) about all the presents and all the money she is spending on Christmas. Is that what it is all about? Sending money on gifts she can ill afford(she is a spender on ANY day) and then complains that money is "tight." She isn't getting on that well with her husband; he calls her "greedy." That she is, but also she has a need to impress or outdo others. She said she is "cutting back" this year. Really?

I have written about this before-about the rank commercialism of Christmas which was intended to be a holy observation of the Birth of Christ. Do you know that Christmas was never celebrated or mentioned in the Bible by the early Christians? Not until the late 1890's did it become a popular holiday(holy day). In its early beginning it was a observation that was intended to supplant a Roman pagan ceremony of "eat, drink, and be merry" of the winter solstice, the darkest days of winter. I guess they needed something to cheer themselves up with. Sort of like football on Sunday and every holiday. Look it up; it's pretty interesting.

I went out for a short time this, just to get out and about. I stopped at the Family Dollar store to pick up some odds and ends that needed, such as Peanut butter. I won't be going out tomorrow as we are supposed to have copious rain, turning to snow on Sunday.

A word that drives me crazy whenever I see it misused...and that is often.

I suppose-to suppose is to assume, to think as true...

I am supposed to go-to think probable, inclined to...

Don't they teach the basics in English...in school, anymore? Oh me...

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NOW IT CAME TO PASS

THAT WHAT WAS SPOKEN

BY THE LORD

THROUGH HIS PROPHET,

MIGHT BE FULFILLED.

BEHOLD THE VIRGIN

SHALL BE WITH CHILD,

AND SHALL BRING

FORTH A SON;

AND THE WILL CALL

HIS NAME EEMMANUEL;

WHICH IS, IINTERPRETED,

"GOD WITH US."

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Matt. 1, 22-23

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How good God is to the upright;

the Lord, to those

that are clean of heart.

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Psalm 73, 1

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The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear....Socrates.

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