Blessed Christmas to you. This Christmas seems a little out of place. Besides having the hustle bustle of preparing all my gifts, I didn't do much shopping this year. I thought that i should give something more meaningful and connected with the meaning of christmas instead of trying to match the person with the present.
When i see people carrying bags of shopping filled with boxes of toys, it feels kinda ironical. You can spend lots on presents, but when it comes to dropping money into a tin or buying tissue paper from the nameless you tend to hold back you know... I used to pick and choose people to buy tissue from, now reflecting, i wonder if anyone who has a choice would sell tissue for a living. Today's Christmas sermon was on the dark side of Christmas-how we forget the children who live from meal to meal, who are dying, the families that are stuggling [matthew13-18] admittedly, i found it wasteful that we had a whole stack of presents sitting under the Christmas tree in church so that everyone could have one each. Really, is it like that? or is it a bribe to encourage people to come back? I must keep in mind that it is not mine to judge.
The first carolers were the angels singing "glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests". Yesterday we joined the ranks of the angels singing. Had a time of fellowship at pastor's house after that. I feel grateful, for a pastor that makes time and effort to open his house to us, to send us home at unearthly hours, bearing in mind that this isn't the first time.
I felt contented to see Uncle Hong and the rest of them. Sometimes you just can't help smiling, and those smiles radiate from the bottom of your heart.
And thank you God for keeping my monster friend safe. It was harrowing just listening to the story recounted.
Blessed Christmas to you. This Christmas seems a little out of place. Besides having the hustle bustle of preparing all my gifts, I didn't do much shopping this year. I thought that i should give something more meaningful and connected with the meaning of christmas instead of trying to match the person with the present.
When i see people carrying bags of shopping filled with boxes of toys, it feels kinda ironical. You can spend lots on presents, but when it comes to dropping money into a tin or buying tissue paper from the nameless you tend to hold back you know... I used to pick and choose people to buy tissue from, now reflecting, i wonder if anyone who has a choice would sell tissue for a living. Today's Christmas sermon was on the dark side of Christmas-how we forget the children who live from meal to meal, who are dying, the families that are stuggling [matthew13-18] admittedly, i found it wasteful that we had a whole stack of presents sitting under the Christmas tree in church so that everyone could have one each. Really, is it like that? or is it a bribe to encourage people to come back? I must keep in mind that it is not mine to judge.
The first carolers were the angels singing "glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests". Yesterday we joined the ranks of the angels singing. Had a time of fellowship at pastor's house after that. I feel grateful, for a pastor that makes time and effort to open his house to us, to send us home at unearthly hours, bearing in mind that this isn't the first time.
I felt contented to see Uncle Hong and the rest of them. Sometimes you just can't help smiling, and those smiles radiate from the bottom of your heart.
And thank you God for keeping my monster friend safe. It was harrowing just listening to the story recounted.
Although the fig tree shall not blossom
neither shall fruit be in the vines;
the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat;
the flock shall be cut off from the fold,
and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
This lullaby is only a few words
A simple run of chords
Quiet here in this spare room
But you can hear it, hear it
Wherever you may go
I will let you down
But this lullaby plays on
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have a blessed christmas
Blessed Christmas to you.
