Yes, this is Christmas

One of my favourite Christmas songs is that by John Lennon, sub-titled ‘So this is Christmas’. The song goes on to ask the question, ‘and what have you done, another year older, a new one just begun…’ That can be a challenging and even depressing question if we believe we have not achieved all we had set out to do. But it doesn’t need to be.

Christmas is all about God’s plan to interrupt human history with a message of great hope. Life can be littered with unmet expectations, half-finished ventures and incomplete projects, but at Christmas it doesn’t matter. Because as the Angel announced ‘Behold I bring you good news of a great joy’.

Rather than being a record of failed endings, our life is one of new beginnings, because God chose to come and live among us as a saviour, Christ the Lord! Make this Christmas a new beginnings complete with new dreams, fresh ideas and great hope and together let’s look forward to all that God has planned for 2017 and beyond.