Christ Ma’s Lights

Week Twelve: Sunday 17 December – Saturday 23 December

Every time I walk along the street where we live it feels less and less like Christmas. Yet the street is lit and decorated with ‘Christmas lights’. So why doesn’t it feel Chrismassy? Because the street resembles Blackpool with the amount of flickering, twikering multi-coloured lights hanging from here, there and everywhere.

What’s that all about? Christmas? Behave. We celebrate Christmas in the middle of winter. Winter is a down time in the calendar; when it is cold and dark and the earth is still and quiet.

So should we all be: settling down with family, warm and still; food and drink in the cupboards, some treats around the tree.

Housebound, family time. Have a good Christmas.