Happy New Year 2017

As the clock clicks down on 2016, perhaps Uncle Bubba's most challenging year, he looks forward into the new year with joyful anticipation. He already knows one resolution that he is going to try and incorporate into his life style and it's easily remembered by the adage, "To waste one’s own time is foolish — to waste others’ is stealing." His intention is to be brisk. In doing so he can efficiently accomplish more in less time, which he knows will require him to be more direct; this will be a challenge. Bubbie believes in being active and cheerful as a lifestyle and anyone who spends time with him would agree. But if y'all know Bubbie he doesn't rest on his laurels, he's always seeking a new way to do things better and to be a better person so it doesn't surprise me that he is already looking to make positive changes to his future. In Bubbie's view the world will be a better place when we all take personal responsibility to be better, active, cheerful people.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! We hear this every year and for Christians, it is a reminder to celebrate the birth of our Lord. But over time and in this sped up world of impatience and intolerance the idea of Christ made manifest in Jesus is wiped from our minds like a leaf, swirling, sucked down into a spiraling backwater eddy at the edge of the world's commercial river, a torrent of glitz and greed. It's at the devil's pleasure that we argue about the expression of Merry Christmas, which distracts us from the reason behind saying it in the first place; aren't we all fools for falling into this trap. We attempt to prove our Merry Christmas righteousness by piling on the gifts and presents to those we feel obligated to provide. We worry about the size of the pile of painstakingly and begrudgingly wrapped presents under the tree for little ones indifferent to quantity.

This year, Uncle Bubba and Sweet Pea are spending the Christmas season a little differently, taking care of people that are in need. They are forgoing major, commercial gift-giving in lieu of giving of themselves in service to others. Not for any recognition, not for any personal gain, not to impress a single soul, but to honor their Lord--a God who gave us the gift of his Son who serves us.

John 3:17, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

In Bubbie's view, he hopes that everyone gets more than what they deserve for Christmas; and Merry Christmas!