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00:00I love Christmas, and one of the things I love about Christmas is getting ready for
00:07Christmas and the anticipation and the expectation, whether that's decorating trees, buying presents
00:14or cooking as a way of preparing hospitality for people, getting caught up in the generosity
00:21that seems to me to light the heart of Christmas.
00:25Boris Johnson recently suggested that the Church was not providing for people's spiritual
00:32hunger and so people were turning to food in order to sate their desires, as it were.
00:39But I think that the material is one of the ways in which we show our spiritual values
00:44of love and generosity towards others.
00:47So actually, the material is a really important means by which we express our Christian spirituality.
00:55And indeed, isn't it true that at the heart of the Christian faith is this generosity?
01:01We have a God who comes to us in the form of a baby, wanting to establish relationship
01:07with us, to show us how we are loved and how he wants to grow with us, and how he shines
01:13for us in the midst of any darkness that we may be undergoing.
01:18So my prayer for you this year is that you may be caught up in this generous God and
01:24the generosity of Christmas.
01:26Do consider if you're feeling lonely or down coming along to a Church service, but whether
01:33you do or not, my prayer for you is that you have a peaceful and a joyful Christmas.