A 2011 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
By Angie Christie

     Hello readers of The Night Watchman Chronicles. I hope that you are all geared up to have a very good Christmas and holiday.
     As we frantically go through each day wondering if all the work, shopping, and decorating of our homes will get done on time, including getting the tree up and the sending of presents, there is something else we should also be thinking about. At this time of year, there are many families who get forgotten. They are the ones who struggle to make ends meet and we must never forget the children of the world.
     I have never been one to preach, but I know someone who has spent time in a homeless hostel with their child and has told me that some 'mums turn up with children, no money, and find it hard to cope.' These are the people that need thought at this time. Oh yes, more than once we say, "There but for the grace of God go I."
     The hostel I am referring to is run by a couple who have a lot to put up with but are determined to make Christmas a day for all the children there. They can run riot and as the lady who runs this hostel says, "It will be a day 'as mad as a box of frogs.'
     Yes, my friends, Christmas is a children's time. The children in our families have love, warmth, and the best thing of all - cuddles. They know they are loved and wanted.
     As we open our gifts and eat our Christmas fare, let us just take a moment from our busy, happy time to think of those people who are lonely and ill, those of our elderly who would give anything for a visitor to cheer them. Let us remember also our military who will not be making it back for Christmas with their loved ones and pray that when their time is up overseas, they will make it back to the arms of their families.
     Most of all readers, think of the children who need praying for so badly. Our prayers and hopes do make a difference, if not to them, then to ourselves. If all of you out there send a prayer out for peace in the world, maybe we can make that difference and no child or lonely person in the future need be hungry or starved of love ever again.
     I, from England, wish all the many readers of the Night Watchman Chronicles a very, very peaceful and happy Christmas and may 2012 bring the start of a better world.

God Bless You All

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