Advent 2009 | A&B Catholic Youth Service

[christmas | december twentyfifth]


CONNECT. . .

Happy Christmas!

Be happy... this is one of the most amazing days there is.

It's the day when we celebrate God being among us. It's the day when we celebrate the fact that God loved us so much.

He could have stayed up in heaven and spoke to us through tablets of stone and the messages of prophets. but he didn't.


REFLECT. . .

Have you ever loved somebody so much that you wanted to be with them?

Sometimes a text message, an E-mail or a phone call just won't do...

Sometimes you have to actually be close enough to touch that person, to see them smile, to hear them laugh, to put arm round them when they need comfort.

That's what Christmas is about. God loved us so much, he just couldn't stay away!

He wanted to walk with us, to feel our pain and to share our joy.



PRAY. . .

Loving Father,

As we celebrate the memory of you coming among us, we thank you with hearts full of love and lives full of hope.

If you can come down to earth as a baby, then surely anything is possible, and any challenge can be conquered!

Help me this Christmas to be that same force of love and joy in the lives of my friends and family.

Amen.