christmas thoughts

[dover squidy]

christmas morning as you open your gifts from loved ones and friends, as you sit down to a nice christmas dinner, spare a minute for those loved ones that are no longer here to enjoy the day, and spare a thought for those that wont be spending time with there loved ones, as they spend the festive season overseas, fighting for our freedom and way of life

Happy Christmas from all at phoenix dolphins sa

[Ragingbull]

Well said that man

[flydog]

We have to count our blessing's, and say a few prayers for the armed forces.

[NICK R]

Went to chapel this morning ,just 20 of us there , Has the true meaning of xmas been lost for ever ?

[Dubbed Squirrel]

Unfortunately I think the answer is yes Nick, unless we can wrestle it back from blatant commercialisation.

[Platitudinus]

We had a program on TV in Australia on Xmas morning as to could we or would we give up Xmas as a Nation. The debate focussed mainly on the effect to the Australian economy and church leaders were asked to discuss what other dates could be used to celebrate the birth of Jesus rather than the current 'selected' one.

Bottom line was it would cost the Australian Economy around $20 billion (circa GBP12.5 billion) for our population which is around 1/3rd the size of the UK.

The bible says "there will come an almighty prophet to the land". This is now interpreted as 'commercial profit'!

And of course, no one asked the people what they thought - they never do.
Plato

[NICK R]

were more concerned about a midwinter break for football than celebrating the birth of Christ.. Sad times we live in

[blackwater]

I agree Dover Squidy its a must to remember them at this time of year, i also agree with NicK, poor turn outs at my church aswell, although i will say it was better than some years.

[Baz T]

If an alien was looking down at earth, he would think we worshipped in the department stores, the amount of people flocking to them!

[benacre]

Bring the boys home.