very wet Christmas
This is the wettest Christmas I can remember. Floods in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The weather has been behaving oddly and we are probably reaping what the world, including us, have sown into the environment. I love the occasional rain that washes and cools our green and hot country, what I dread are these relentless and heartless rains that are indifferent to the plans of many parents who took leave for some outdoor family activities.
I have been having a cold and cough since last Monday. I am on medication and prayer, and I am recovering. So it has been my daughter and I, and now it has spread to my nephew Wen Por. Despite the dampening weather, I had a wonder-filled Christmas, as I gazed upon the Son of God, and the Christ-child, both in personal meditation and in a meaningful service we had last Sunday.
Everybody is back now: the staff from ministry abroad, many members and families from a mix of holidays, missions and work assignments. Every June and December school holidays, churches all over the country suffer from reduced attendances due to such things. This is a feature of church life that became a trend mainly in the last decade or more and we are going to see more of this, what with a recovering economy, cheaper air-fares, and a growing lifestyle of travel and leisure. We just have to adjust to it and see in it opportunities to direct it towards fulfilling meaningful ends.
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