A Most Unusual Christmas
Anyone who knows me knows I don’t get all tied up with the commercialism of Christmas. I love to give gifts more than receive them.
Christmas is not biblically correct anyway. There is no way shepherds would have been sleeping with their sheep in December, as the weather in that part of the world gets cold and I have read the sheep get put up for the winter by October.
The Bible does not tell us a specific date for when Christ was born, but it does give us the specific time He died, which was His main purpose when He left heaven to become God as man. We know His death and resurrection took place during Passover.
Some pope arbitrarily decided December 25 was a good date to celebrate the birth of Christ. Many Christians don’t feel comfortable celebrating Christmas at all because there is no biblical reference as to when it actually happened.
The three Wise Men had to have arrived quite a while after Jesus was born as Herod had all boys under the age of two killed to make sure he got Jesus, Whom he was afraid would take his throne. If the Wise Men had arrived at the birth of Christ Herod would have had infants only killed.
I get pleasure out of watching and hearing what my grandchildren got for gifts and seeing their happy faces and hearing their happy voices on the phone.
We had lunch with our daughter and family and then cooked our own meal the night after Christmas because we were all so stuffed from Christmas dinner at our daughter’s house.
On Christmas Eve I noticed my husband had what looked like a plumb in his right cheek. After checking it in better light and asking him how he felt he told me his top tooth that has a crown on it was hurting.
Knowing he probably had an abcess I called the dentist who called the pharmacy with a prescription for an anti-biotic. Several hours later the pharmacy claimed they didn’t have the prescription. This has happened before with them so I called the dentist again and told her what was going on and also told her the redness was going below the jaw line and he said his eye hurt.
She called back and said instead of leaving the message on the voice mail this time she waited to speak directly with the pharmacist and we could pick up the medicine in 15 minutes. She apologized to us for the pharmacy making the mistake.
Wednesday morning she called my husband and had him go to her office to have the tooth checked and X-rayed. She saw the abcess and is going to do a root canal on him on Dec. 31. This will give the infection time to go down too.
She will take off the existing crown, do the root canal, put the existing crown back for a few weeks and then put a new crown in there once she’s sure everything is fine.
This reminded me of the Christmas he had a hernia and couldn’t get off the couch. He soon had that repaired.
I had a busy day running to doctors’ appointments on Wednesday and today we are going to have an HD Tivo receiver and dish installed to replace one of our Tivo receivers and the dishes outside.
We have one TV that is HD compatible, but as we replace other TVs they will be HD compatible so we might as well be ready for it.
I think we have a free day Friday, and we’re looking forward to it.
Now if my husband will just stop being stubborn and go to the doctor to see why his foot hurts him so much I’d feel much better.
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and wish you all a Happy New Year.
Written by ~J~
