180 hand decorated tealight holders

Tomorrow we will give way lots of love to local people.  Little things - tealights in hand decorated holders, goodie bags to children in the choir, craft items and sweets to small children, sandwiches, cakes, hot and cold drinks... smiles and the warmth of fellowship.

We will recall a little thing, a baby born in a little town, largely unnoticed... whose story would change the course of history.

What we do won't be earth shattering, but sitting down to write my 5 minute talk, I find myself drawn back to the mystery of the infinite contracted to the insignificant, and these wonderful words of a carol we won't be singing...

...Yet in the dark streets shining

Is everlasting light

The hopes and fears of all the years

Are met in you this night.

God of little things, take this little thing and make it meaningful.  Amen