Today I finally took down my Christmas Tree and put in in its box!
Not the tree in the house or at our church but the upside-down one we used in worship at our Carol Service. Following on from where I began in Advent and the thoughts on credit cards etc we ended up in our church thinking just how upside down ( or right way up) the coming of Jesus makes your life as a Christian ... how kingdom values really can be topsy turvy to those around us.
So one trip to the B and Q pre-Christmas sale got me an upside down tree at a bargain price. (Yes, really the base is at the top and the star goes on the bottom) and it all became a useful icon for our reflections. Even more when at a suitable point in the service we were invited to hang credit cards (sadly they were cardboard ones I had made up for the occasion) on the tree ... reminding ourselves of how much the Christmas story stood at odds with the God of Mammon who curiously seems to share the feast day of Dec 25th.
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