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Monday 13 December
Christmas as usual?!?
that we celebrate and remember every year I think it is fair to say that this year has not by keeping this special day. gone as we had quite hoped it would. The coronavirus has continued to challenge and This year most of us hope we can have interrupt our lives, and while we can resume Christmas as usual, others are hoping for some activities, we are not back to how better than previous years and for some who things were before, and we might never get have lost loved ones this Christmas may be especially difficult. Christmas is a time of back to business as usual. joy, not because everything is perfect and When we celebrate Christmas, it is good to all is right with the world. It is a time of joy remember that the first Christmas was not because it speaks to us of hope, of warmth at all usual. A heavily pregnant couple is on and light and love. At the darkest point of the road travelling to register themselves in the winter, we remember that God loved Bethlehem, the hometown of the husband. us so much that he was prepared to give A baby is born in a dirty stable because up everything to come and be born among there was no room anywhere else for them us. This is the story that tells us that we are to stay. Shepherds, who were not welcome deeply loved by a God who longs to bring us anywhere, were the first to visit this special hope and joy. So, as we strive to celebrate child. A new young family flees from a jealous Christmas as usual let’s not forget the joy mad king who tries to kill their baby and they and hope that Christmas is really all about. become refugees. It might seem that none The hope of peace and the joy of knowing of this is how it was supposed to happen. A how much we are loved. promised and special child born at what must With warm greetings, seem like the wrong time and the wrong Remco van den Heuvel place. None of this was what his parents (Minister at Wendover Free Church) would have wanted or planned, it certainly wasn’t usual, but it is an extraordinary story To join in the Christmas Trail, see also page 19
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