Christmas greetings
A Merry Christmas to you all in the blogosphere! My former university Chaplain and spiritual guide Fr. Michael Garvey (Uni. of Liverpool in the late '80s) sent me the following reflection the other day and I have asked him if I might share it on here (thanks Mike!). Christmas Greetings 2012 Seasonal greetings, vieing for attention, fill our shelves. Some stand out because of their design. The best remembered are those bearing the names of people special to us. Instinctively we can pick them out in an instant. So it’s more the greeter than the greeting! The tattiest of greetings from the right person means more to us than the most elaborate and expensive. Animals, restless, noisy and smelly, a straw filled wooden trough, the chill of the night air, the total lack of security, it’s the greeting we all recognise, the very opposite of sophisticated and well-heeled - but how well do we know the Greeter? He knows us, intimiately. He loves us, individually. He delivers on his promises. F...