Is 'Peace on earth' achievable? Christmas gives us an opportunity to hone our peacemaking skills - in those rooms and around those tables where we are placed, sometimes uncomfortably, alongside people we may see only once a year - maybe some of whom, if we were honest, we’d prefer to see even less often. 

If we admit to ourselves our reluctance to let old wounds heal, or our strategies of avoidance of people we disagree with, or of sidestepping uncomfortable conversations, then we are at the start of building peace on earth. For the beginning of making peace from within is to ask ourselves why we act that way, and prayerfully, carefully, begin to work out what we might be able to do to change.

A talk for Christmas Eve, 24 December 2023. 

Referencing ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Titus 2.11-14, Luke 2.1-20.

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