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Thursday 15 July 2021

Always winter?

 

Oh, the joy of a summer morning. Clear blue skies. Swallows nesting in the eaves, swooping and chatting to each other. Bees humming and flies darting here and there. Warmth in the sun. Muscles, usually tensed to the cold, can relax.

I am very aware how blessed I am.

I’ve started into the Narnia world again, a world where it is always winter, never Christmas. I am grateful that God did not give us a world like that. Jesus in our hearts has the power to make it always Christmas, never winter.

But, of course, there is the equivalent of the White Witch working to subvert the perfect plan. So in this fallen state, millions suffer in conditions that are harsh and unrelenting. In some of the camps in Syria, where children are sentenced for the crimes of their parents, creative imagination is warped to focus on schemes to fight back, to claw back some freedom. Where people feel abandoned to injustice and cruelty, summer never comes.

May God help our leaders today. May he inspire their thinking and help us find a form of justice that does not leave children in a world which is always winter, never Christmas. May I double down on my commitment to pray for a world in which Christ’s peace reigns in the hearts of all.

May Christmas come in our hearts today.

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