Advent - some thoughts for Christmas eve
Dec. 24th, 2017 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charlie_cochraneWe were up in Gloucestershire for Christmas a dozen or so years ago and went to my ma-in-law’s church for the Christmas morning service. The vicar had put together a wonderful celebration, depicting Mary and Joseph as modern refugees, bringing the familiar story alive again in a highly relevant and – for some of the congregation, I suspect – a slightly uncomfortable way.
Taking the holy family out of their safe little nativity scene and into a world of occupying armies, forced relocation, homelessness and fear, reminds us that refugees and others in need aren’t to be looked down on. And that a proper Christian response shouldn’t be “we don’t want you”.
An aside – the vicar’s two sons were there, maybe just short of their teens, built like the side of a barn both of them. Her name? Vunipola, of course.
Have a truly blessed Christmas, all.
Taking the holy family out of their safe little nativity scene and into a world of occupying armies, forced relocation, homelessness and fear, reminds us that refugees and others in need aren’t to be looked down on. And that a proper Christian response shouldn’t be “we don’t want you”.
An aside – the vicar’s two sons were there, maybe just short of their teens, built like the side of a barn both of them. Her name? Vunipola, of course.
Have a truly blessed Christmas, all.
