Environmental catastrophes and everyday problems laden each one, elderly or not. Let this be our Christmas wish then . . .

You look around you and what do you see? Persons who have their own plans and places to go to. Did you know they might be wishing they were you? This is the ambivalence of life: the grass is always greener on the other side. Yet it is not so for you just have to look hard enough at what life has offered you and that you just have to count your blessings to know you have much to thank God for.  If there is ambivalence it is the things that we take for granted which are the very reasons why life has meaning.

This then is the reason why this elderly expresses her wish for you this Christmas. For us, the elderly. the mere fact that we are are alive is the greatest gift God has given to us. This Christmas, let our focus be our loved ones. Savor the moments that you can be together. As a song goes: "We pass this way but once so do good while you can."