What is the difference between nursing home and hospital?
In a hospital patients are more or less acutely ill and are being treated to get better, or at least to achieve a certain stability. In a hospital there are nurses and doctors all the time (also on weekends sometimes)A nursing home is a place where people live who need continuous or very frequent care, either because of (usually chronic) medical problems, or because of decreased mobility due to age, arthritis etc., or because of cognitive problems. They are generally stable though, even with their illness. Some people do get better, but most don't and will stay there until the end.
How do Seventh Day Adventists celebrate Christmas? Why do they do so?
I’ve been an Adventist since I was a teenager.There wasn’t any difference in the way we celebrated Xmas as a pseudo Catholic family as to the way we celebrated it when we became Adventists: We continued eating tamales since the beginning of December til January 6th, when the traditional Magi’s visit to the newborn babe is celebrated.We had the same Xmas tree, presents, food, and drinks. My wife is a third generation adventist and her family has always celebrated Xmas the same way as some of her relatives that are not adventists.The adventist church has no statement or guidelines in regards to how to celebrate Xmas, what to do and what not to do. Most Adventist churches have a Xmas tree decorated for the holiday and until not to long ago it was traditional to go caroling on the neighborhoods.You’ll rarely would go to an Adventist church around the holidays and not hear a sermon on the nativity and what a great opportunity it is to share the love of Christ with our neighbors during these days.We are Christians first and Adventists second. We realize that Jesus probably wasn’t born on December 25, we celebrate His birthday and the salvation that his sacrifice provided to mankind. We celebrate His birth because without it we would not had the salvation that Calvary provided.It’s during Xmas that we celebrate the fact that the great I AM loved us so much that he willingly left his divinity behind and became human. That’s what makes Xmas so special. God gave us a gift through his son.Why shouldn’t we share in the same spirit?