How vast the difference when a family is gathered for a celebration without the Lord present. Are family bonds strengthened?
Perhaps for tradition have brought them together and they are given a chance to take off from when they last met. But how the noise and merry making are empty.
The celebration this evening is suppose to be about the birth of our Lord, our God who for the love of us came down to live with us and restore our heavenly inheritance lost to sin.
Yet no one seems to care! It has become all about the food, wine, sweets and presents.
Lord have mercy, help us to reach out to these families. So that they will experience Your love so as to encounter the true meaning of Christmas.
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