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Christmas

As your Vicar in this Parish, concerned about your welfare, I thought you might like some advice on Christmas eating:

  1. If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.
  2. When you eat with someone else calories don't count if you don't eat more than they do.
  3. If you fatten everyone else around you, you'll look thinner.
  4. Things licked off spoons have no calories, especially home-made brandy butter.
  5. Foods with similar colouring have the same calories, ie turkey and white chocolate

I suspect you would be wise not to follow my advice about Christmas eating! But if I had a moment of your time what would it be essential for me to say to you about Christmas?

Well, Christians believe that Christmas was God's first great act of love - coming to earth as a human, a human called Jesus. It was to show that God loves us not because of anything we've done but because of who He is. I know that many believe secretly that God will only love them when they do well - after all that's the world's expectation of us, isn't it? Let me tell you now - no, this is not God's way at all. We can do nothing to earn His love, it is His free gift to us. The truth is that the message that Christianity offers is a surprise - above all, because unlike other religions and the way of the world, it dares to make God's love unconditional.

So stop, just for a moment, and ponder that God came to earth in human form because He loves you and cares for you. He loves you even if you don't know him and He loves you when you call him Father.

Can I wish you and your families a really peaceful Christmas from all of us here at St.Mary's.


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