Christmas 2007

This year's Christmas was a bitter-sweet one.

I had resisted doing many of the "traditional" things this year including wrapping the presents (kindly taken over by Ad), writing the cards (which ended up in last min scrumbles to a few words instead of my usual essay), organising parties and getting people drunk....

Somehow this Christmas feels lot more sober than the previous Wow times.

However, on the eve of Christmas, while delivering Christmas carols & mass (to the best of my ability) to the rest of the congregation, I felt what it was like to welcome the birth of Christ. To receive a baby born under very humbled conditions. Not in a hospital, not in a home but in a manger.

The last place that anyone can think of a man as great as he would be born in. (And we often complain about the hygiene blah blah blah that we are "subjected" to. What about Christ?)

It was indeed the highlight of this year's Christmas for me, the rest of the celebrations can and will go on but the light in my heart is renewed, rejuvenated.

Happy Birthday Baby Jesus.

One chorus which touched me this Christmas:
We were the reason
That He gave His life
We were the reason
That He suffered and died
To a world that was lost
He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

What about you? What was Christmas like for you?