Every year I promise myself that I will be organised and send out cards blah blah, and every year 10 days before Christmas I haven’t done anything! This has been such a crazy year and to have arrived at December in one piece has been an achievement.
We went to a concert in Sheffield this week. our Friend Janine Dyer and the Sheffield Community Choir gave us a fantastic evening of Carols and Christmas songs. I decided to nip to the loo before leaving and had an altercation with a toilet cistern which has left me with a beautiful black eye and a headache!
This afternoon it was across to Barnsley Costa Coffee for Love Life Church’s Christmas service. What a great end to the week.
Christmas is a time for families and friends to get together. But what if your family is no longer here? Both Nick and I have lost parents my mum died a year ago and my sister the year before that. Nicks father passed away at the start of the Covid lockdown. Technically we are both orphans! However in the book of John Chapter 14 verse 18 Jesus tells us. “I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you”. Whilst ever we have our Father in heaven we will never be orphans we are daughter and son of a King.
Jesus is Gods gift to us and we are gifts to those around us. We are never alone even when life seems bleak and difficult our Father is only a word away. Call out to him this Christmas and see what he has for you. You will be blessed beyond your wildest dreams and loved into eternity.
Donna Rogers Writer 