Bronwyn Angela White

On Christmas morning when the beach is calling and the family__ gathering and the presents are a mystery (or definitely feels book-shaped anyway), and after the splendour and celebration of Christmas Eve, we don__ want Christmas Day to be an anticlimax. We__e gifted our Oxfam goats or geese and bought our CWS calendars, and what we__ like, on Christmas Day, what we really want, is for things to be__erfect. Just like the old days. Something new, but also something familiar.And that__ what__ so wonderful about the Christmas story, and why preachers penning their reflections approach with trepidation but also with joy: at Christmas, the news is all good.

(from a prayer for inclusiveness):O god whose face changes as we move and learn and change, whose image becomes less like ours and more like that of the stranger we treat as a friend; the god whom we create from the sum of all we know that is wonderful, generous, true and wise: May we see ourselves in the god-ness of others and ourselves in their image of you.