Subject: Seniors' Texting Codes

ATD: At The Doctor's 
BTW: Bring The Wheelchair 

BYOT: Bring Your Own Teeth

CBM: Covered By Medicare

CUATSC: See You At The Senior Center

DWI: Driving While Incontinent

FWB: Friend With Beta Blockers

FWIW: Forgot Where I Was

FYI: Found Your Insulin

GGPBL: Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low!

GHA: Got Heartburn Again

IMHO: Is My Hearing-Aid On?

LMDO: Laughing My Dentures Out

LOL: Living On Lipitor

LWO: Lawrence Welk's On

OMMR: On My Massage Recliner   

ROFL... CGU: Rolling On The Floor Laughing... And Can't Get Up   

TTYL: Talk To You Louder

WAITT: Who Am I Talking To?

WTFA: Wet The Furniture Again

WTP: Where's The Prunes?

WWNO: Walker Wheels Need Oil

The Power of Twenty Dollar(s)

How far will the money go? A church follows the scriptural lesson.

Getting ready for Christmas? Advent gives us a liturgical way to look at the season.

A liturgical way to look at the busy season of pre-Christmas

This article has a kinder, gentler way of looking at the pre Christmas business and our choices.

Keeping Christ in Christmas (???)

I got a note on FB urging me to "Like" a website that wants us to keep Christ in  Christmas.  That website is selling stuff to Christians about this topic, urging them to "want" some merchandise shown there.  Here is my response, sent to their "contact us" link:

Regarding keeping Christ in Christmas: Isn't it about time for Christians to acknowledge that the secular parts of Christmas, i.e., the shopping, partying, scramble to spend money, "wanting" certain gifts, baking, decorating, etc. don't have anything to do with the Christ in Christmas? Christmas is about Jesus' birthday, about worshiping the Christ, the son of God, who brought salvation to us, undeserved. Do we decorate and party for a month before anybody else's birthday? Do we spend money on gifts for other people for any body else's birthday?  Do we use anybody else's birthday as an excuse to go over the top to sell stuff, your website included?

Lets acknowledge that most of what we call Christmas or Holiday or whatever, has nothing to do with the Christ who is in the real Christmas. Maybe we should call the church services, the pageant at church, and the intimate family gatherings CHRISTMAS. We can call the rest of the season, the fun stuff and the stressful get-the-gifts stuff, the Winter Holiday Season.  Nothing wrong with having fun, but lets not blame Christ for wanting to party.