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Merry Christmas. A Guest Post from Rev T

Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Rev T wrote this for me for Christmas 2016.  But it wasn't sent until 23rd December.  Way too late in blogging terms to be useful so I saved it for 2017.  When it didn't get used as due to an unscheduled blogging break.  It seems a shame to waste all of Rev's T hard work so here's the post exactly as he wrote in it back then.  Star Wars references and all.  I hope you enjoy it.

Candles


You may or may not have picked up that I have been doubly excited this Christmas? I love Christmas anyway but to have a new Star Wars film released and one that doesn’t suck a week before has made me so excited that Mrs T has rolled her eyes more than once! She’s a saint you know.  (He's not wrong - Mrs T)

I think I have seen it all in regards to what people associate with the festive season. Selfridges in London, who are known for their exquisite window displays, have the theme of the Zodiac this year. In the schools work I do, there is a more charming interpretation to the Nativity story where Elmo the Elephant is part of the narrative. Then there’s the famous designer handbag advert that has swapped the infant child for their brand!! 

In all the tinsel and lights, we loose sight of the baby in the manger. He’s there somewhere. Probably nothing like the dolls in the religious stores we saw in Madrid a couple of months ago. 

One of my college lecturers used to ask two questions: 
  • What kind of God? and, 
  • So what? 
Christmas reminds me that God identifies with the weak, the mild and helpless and not power and pomp, riches and status. 

Shortly after the events of Jesus’ birth his family had to flee for their lives and become refugees in another land barely escaping the murder of the innocents by King Herod. This bit of the story is often left out of modern day re-tellings because we don’t want that warm fuzzy feeling to go!

My work as a Baptist Minister has to try and mirror image the kind of God I follow.  That is why it is a privilege to work alongside people in our Food Bank, sit with those who are grieving, struggling in life and generally try to remember that being is better than doing. Sometimes, just sometimes, I think I might get it nearly right.

Anyway Mrs T will be home soon and I need to wrap her presents up. Yes dear, you hear correct it is the plural!!  (Yay! - Mrs T]

I hope you enjoyed this guest post from Rev T and that I can tempt him back for further appearances. I need all the content I can get.  The blog is a content eating beast of a thing!


Merry Christmas from me, Rev T and the Tubblet.  

Thank you for supporting us - and Someplace Strange - during the year with comments, retweets, featured posts and general loveliness.  
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