Happy Christmas
for all my loved ones back home. We are well and truly blessed, and I wanted to take a moment to share some thoughts with you that I've been having. Some of you have already heard this, so bear with me! Christmas is a time of hope, and of rebirth. A time to remember that the hope of mankind was reborn on this special night, in the simplest of conditions. There was no birthing suite or epidural. Just a mother, a very anxious father, some animals, and a manger filled with straw. That's it. God chose to send His son to us in the most basic of conditions. And yet, there was nothing basic about this baby. He was born with one purpose - to save mankind. From the day He was born, He was destined to die, so that we might have eternal life. There was no fancy wrapping paper on the most amazing gift ever given. Mary gave birth to Jesus, loved him, raised him, and later witnessed his death on the cross. He was the saviour of the world, but he was still her little boy,