Give a Little Love


How would you describe this year in three words?

This time last year we were busy enjoying our Advent/ Christmas services and tucking into our turkey or nut roast not knowing what 2020 would bring. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!

 

 

 

The John Lewis Christmas adverts are the most anticipated video of the year. This year, Waitrose and John Lewis have unveiled their Christmas inspired by acts of kindness by the public during the pandemic, featuring snowmen, giant Christmas crackers and hip-hop pigeons. 

John Lewis and Waitrose theme for this year is ‘Give a little love’.

Four years ago, Helen and I went to see the film ‘I Daniel Blake’. The film is about an ill carpenter who finds himself in need of state welfare, he meets a desperate single mother who finds the same thing. Together, the duo discovers that negotiating through the red tape is a challenge. 

Friends, we all know a Daniel Blake…

We see this every day, on way too many faces.

The person is our neighbour; our co-worker, our classmate, and yes, the homeless man or woman on the street. When we see or hear of someone who is lost, alone, rejected, broken down and hurt…

…Do we simply say, ‘It’s a shame, but it is not my problem,” or do we take action – should we put God’s love where the rubber meets the road and do something about it?

I share this with you because recently the news reported that for the first time in its history UNICEF will help feed children in the UK. This breaks my heart. It is so easy to think everything will be ok when we receive the vaccine, but we need to look at the bigger picture because charities helping to feed children in the UK shows we have challenging times ahead. 

So as Christians we need to be good citizens by respecting the tiers in our places of worship, but more importantly to ‘give a little love’. 

Our Circuit Advent and Christmas theme for this year is ‘God Is With Us’. God showed ‘a little love’ by sending His Son into the world who was born a refugee and later to be inclusive in his ministry to the outcasts. And God wants from us is to give love back to the community and world especially during these COVID times. 

 

 

 

 May you come to know the joy and peace of Emmanuel, God with you this Christmas. And may the community see God in you.

Matt & Helen

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