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'Dear God, why is Christmas happening earlier every year?' prays the bewildered person in the cartoon, clutching a Christmas cake labelled 'use by November'. I must admit it seems a lot less than one year since I was gathering together the Christmas spirit, practising harmonies in medieval carols, deciding on the presents and planning the what, where, and with whom, of Christmas dinner. How easy it is to get caught up in the madness of the end of the year! They don't call it the 'silly season' for nothing. On top of all that, daily media doses of death and devastation and famine, and religious doorknockers bewailing the calamitous state of the world, can leave one feeling rather less than celebratory; sad too, to read of the secularisation of the season in Britain, where the politically correct maintain it should be 'the holiday season', lest the word 'Christ-mas' offend those of other faiths. 'Bah, humbug!', as Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, might say. But let's not overlook the timely reminder of the wonderful gift that came at Christmas. Despite the mess we continue to make of his world, it is still God's lovely creation, it is still his world, and despite our best efforts at ignorance, God is still in charge. This Christmas may we be like the renewed Scrooge, of whom at the end it was said, that he knew how to keep Christmas well… May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! |
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