Alone?

Do you remember the movie Home Alone?
Well for single people thats what Christians is like for million of single people. They sit at home on Christmas day perhaps eating a simple tv dinner while watching either some movie or watching a sporting event. What about family members? Well if you have family they might invite you over for a home cooked meal. However, if your the last one in the family Christmas can be  an welcomed guest.
The latter aspect is true for this writer. So, every Christmas its a simple microwaveable tv dinner and a little time for a movie from the DVD collection. And forget the Mincemeat Pie not one grocery store sells them. So my favorite pie and ice cream go by the wayside like other traditions.

How can you help?

#1.    Adoption:  thats right adopt a single person for the holidays. treat him like family. 

#2.   Gift Giving;  find out what he or she likes and make an effort to give them a few gifts, Some people might even make a Christmas Wish list right over there on Amazon

#3.    Food: NO person should spend the holidays alone even at meal time. If you treat him or her like family find out what foods s/he likes such as does he or she like apple pies, cherry pies or maybe even mince meat pies. Maybe a person likes ham instead of turkey. Taking someone out to a restaurant does not count as it make the person feel like an outsider!

#4.   Games & TV  if your family plays games then be sure to invite him or her to play. If your family watches a sporting even invite them to watch with you. 

Church idea: perhaps in October your church could have a Adoption Day. A family adopts a known single person for the holidays where all of the above could be put into play.

Remember to treat him or her like family. 

Footnote

Just so you know Littlethunder does have a Christmas Wish list at Amazon just click on this sentence and  be swept away to his list.

 

What Does It Matter?

As you drive down the highways and byways of life you pass an endless number of fencepost, houses and business. However, have your ever stopped your car to see with your eyes? I speak not about the physical eyes but the eyes of the heart. Look and see what you miss and have missed in those days gone by. You have missed far to much and for all you know it is lost forever. Yet, believe it or not there is hope for those who will come after we are long gone.

Last year I shared the plight of the Wolverine. I shared a few videos and told you what I know and even what ought to transpire. Did what I shared matter? Did it help the creature of the wild? Only God and God alone knows the answer. However, and all thanks to the works of Ken Burns you too can have your eyes opened to the plight of the various animals that nature holds so dear.

But first let us reason together and understand the following; In the beginning God created everything long before He created mankind, have you ever wondered why? Take a look around you what do you see. Do you see three million bison roaming free? How many hawks or falcons do you see soaring through the sky? How many elephants are left for the hands of poachers to remove from the face of the planet? To some everything just does not seem to matter. Why is this? Their way of life says "What does it matter Jesus is coming soon." And there is where the problem all beings. What does it matter? For ages mankind has used that phrase and countless birds, elephants and wolverines have gone either close to extinction or disappeared off the face of this earth forever. 

Now, and as you sit reading this even the fish of the sea face the same fate and all due to over fishing. What does it matter right? When God put the creatures on this planet there was a good reason; it was for mankind to care for not to destroy like some mad man on the loose. One needs to realize this very thing; in nature one creature relies on the next. Case in point; the flower needs the birds and the bees to spread its seeds so it can grow. The Bald Eagle is needed to keep certain creatures population in check. The Bison sometimes known as the Buffalo keep the grasses from growing to high causing chances of wildfires to be greater. Man was put here not just to populate the planet but to care for those things God already made for us. God never intended us to destroy what HE so wonderfully made. 

Thanks to people like Ken Burns and his documentations we can see and learn what mankind is doing to its own planet called earth. How about every man, woman and child start bonding together and save whatever we have left. Not for just yourself but for the generations upon generations to come. And maybe whenever Jesus does come back for His people He will indeed say, "well done my faithful servant." 

Please take time to view the following by Ken Burns:

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

The Scripture of Nature (1851-1890) [HD]

National Parks