I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
On Christmas morning when the beach is calling and the family__ gathering and the presents are a mystery (or definitely feels book-shaped anyway), and after the splendour and celebration of Christmas Eve, we don__ want Christmas Day to be an anticlimax. We__e gifted our Oxfam goats or geese and bought our CWS calendars, and what we__ like, on Christmas Day, what we really want, is for things to be__erfect. Just like the old days. Something new, but also something familiar.And that__ what__ so wonderful about the Christmas story, and why preachers penning their reflections approach with trepidation but also with joy: at Christmas, the news is all good.
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On Christmas morning when the beach is calling and the family__ gathering and the presents are a mystery (or definitely feels book-shaped anyway), and after the splendour and celebration of Christmas Eve, we don__ want Christmas Day to be an anticlimax. We__e gifted our Oxfam goats or geese and bought our CWS calendars, and what we__ like, on Christmas Day, what we really want, is for things to be__erfect. Just like the old days. Something new, but also something familiar.And that__ what__ so wonderful about the Christmas story, and why preachers penning their reflections approach with trepidation but also with joy: at Christmas, the news is all good.
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