Texting a weather report to California requires care. If I
just write that it is -5, it sounds a whole lot colder than it actually is. I
need to add that little letter ‘C’, or -5 is understood as -22(F).
It’s easy to get sloppy. To omit the odd word or phrase, to
fail to recognise that the hearer/reader might express truths in a different
way, a way which exaggerates or twists reality.
It’s easy to get sloppy with our behaviour, too. To forget
that others are reading our every word and action, scanning us to see if we are
true to Who we say we believe in.
Christmas is yet another opportunity to let the transparent
hope found in the manger and on the cross shine through our actions and
attitudes. With our backs to the crass commercialism we can readily sigh with
wonder as we marvel at the gift of God.
The light of the world is in the world. Shine, Jesus, shine!
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