At Christmas time we see lots of people we don’t normally see. Because we live in a tourist area, we often see couples or families on holidays. We also see people brought along by other family members to church for special services, as we had yesterday. At times like these some women manage to convince their husbands who don’t normally attend, to come.
Each week I see women at church on their own because their men won’t come. They aren’t interested. Others are on their own, because their family they have been victims of a family pulled apart by unfaithfulness and divorce. And I think how blessed I am.
It is great to be able to go to church together as a couple and important in a marriage that we share those things that are important to us and that we are both heading in the same direction, rather than being pulled two different ways. Mick and I are thankful too, each of our adult children has marriage partners who share their faith and who attend church together.
Yesterday was a special carols and reading service in our church complete with drama. The leader of our music team wrote a drama about invitations that not only had people laughing but led perfectly into the talk about the real meaning of Christmas.
Mick and I were two of those reading bible passages – just another thing we like to share. The music team led the carols to a packed church of families, both regulars and extended family members, and holiday makers. Our music team leader and yours truly did an item using the carol What Child is This?
It was lovely day as we stayed around and chatted over morning tea, lunch and a whole celebration and farewell for a young man who’s been with us as a Ministry trainee for two years and is now planning to go off to go to college for further study.
So it was a lovely day but so much better to be able to share it as a couple and to see other married couples being able to share what it is important. It provides a good solid basis on which to build a marriage.
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