ILLNESS and Christmas and Death

Got Life on Mars on DVD, and honestly made me think back to my Dad, my Granddad and life before their deaths.
The 70's were a great time, and I was happy to have grown up then with some brilliant people around me.

Well what an interesting week this has been, I love Christmas time, the festivity, the dinner, the just sitting down and watching 'comfortably' television schedules that remind me of good times past.

This year however I spent the Christmas week including the big day ill, in fact so ill I was laid up throughout most of it, and when up, stuck within range of toilets and glasses of water.

My one single Venture out broke my golden rule about Christmas, in which I flatly refuse to leave my house for anybody, however this anybody was my mother in laws best friend, and she was dying of cancer and in her last moments,

there was no question I would thus take my in laws to see her, despite all that was wrong with me, I was not as bad as this honorable lady facing death on the day of the birth of our lord.

So pssssst want to know what Christmas really is? Want to genuinely see what it was actually all about? Well I sat in a very nice house, surrounded by very very nice things, there was money and goods and attainment here....and in the next room there was a lady dying, surrounded by the most important thing ever...Family and Friends,

no gifts did she need, nor did or would she have cared if her house and all material things had gone, what mattered was the living breathing people around her

and when she was called away today the 28th December 2007 at 1 o clock to the big guy in the sky, I would wager my soul she took nothing with her but the memories and love of those same people, the house and all its goods are still there, I know I have seen them today.

Lesson for life then, our material attainments make us cosy, but in the end only one thing brings us true comfort and it comes from those we love and care for in life

The true meaning of Christmas. The meaning so many forget and other religions threaten!

As to my illness, well a week of my life passed by because of an illness, but with any luck I have many more weeks to do whatever I can in my life, I cannot grumble, because it serves no purpose

I can just however be thankful and honest to God I am.

It all begins again next week, the study, the forwarding of myself in this material world. Updates as and when..............Onwards and upwards.....etc