“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.” [John 1:9] Late Monday night we started our Christmas celebrations in darkness – and with one lit candle – and we recognized a kind of fragility.  A slight wind could blow the first candle out.  And yet that flame passed from one person to another…and soon the whole church was aglow with the warmth of candlelight.  I think we find it so…

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.“  What a year this has been in politics and in the media…it’s been a year full of surprises about the world we live in. On the political front, there have been the surprises of Brexit and of American politics. Never have we seen such strongly held oppositions on so many issues – with people claiming the high moral ground on both sides…

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us full of grace and truth….and we beheld his glory“ Today is a day for joy and for peace; it is a day for songs and for feasting! We have a simple message to us from God – it comes to us in our Bible readings and in the crèche scene here.  God loves us and took flesh to become one of us that we might…