Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! Time pass fast, remember last year in HK. Derek & I hurrried to buy christmas gift for friends as we thought that is the last christmas before we leave for Australia. Now this is the first year in Australia for a hot christmas!
As in a western country, they treat Christmas as a big day for family gathering. They will buy christmas gift (a bit crazy in the shopping center), cook christmas lunch with turkey, roast chicken, pork, hams, seafood, desert...... just like us in chinese new year.
Every people look forward for christmas and they usually have long holiday from 21 dec till first week of jan. Some even longer!
The patients I met are also excited about christmas and always ask what will I do during those days and since only Derek & I are here, they think that we are too lonely. They brought christmas present to me which really suprise me!
But I have not heard about the real meaning of christmas from them, they all treat as family gathering days like Thanksgiving. I am a bit suprise when in a western country, less and less people talk about Jesus Christ in his big day, people just busy with shopping and preparing foods and talking about Santa chous. So when they ask me what will I do, I jsut tell them I will go to church to celebrate the birth of christ.
As christian, I still remind myself this is the great day for us as Jesus Christ is born to save us. Without him, we are still in sin and cannot reunit with God.
This year, Derek & I still will go to church on 24 Dec (evening) & 25 Dec, then we may have gathering with the friends in church.
Here, we wish you are Merry Christmas and may God's blessing be with U all!