‘You cannot wrap God up in a neat little parcel.’ Photo: by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash
‘Dead certainty or living possibility?’, by Jean West, from December 21, 1979
‘No wonder there are people who hate Christmas!’
Christmas means many different things to different people. Some I know who hate it, mostly because of the fuss and the crowds, the upset from a quiet routine, and perhaps too because of an antipathy towards the deeper symbolic meaning. Some may dread it, because of the emphasis on their own loneliness at a time when others are assembling in family groups. But for most of us it is a time of sharing and caring, a bright spot in the dark days of winter, a meeting with one another, and in particular a meeting with children. And as this International Year of the Child draws to a close my thoughts have been focusing on the world’s children and wondering what more can be done for our children everywhere.
