- an angel turns up at your door and says you’re going to have a baby.
- John Lewis make an advert that makes you shed a tear.
- a star in the night sky begins burning brighter, almost as if it wants you to follow it.
- a strange bearded guy starts shouting ‘repent’ and ‘get ready for the Lord’.
- Cliff Richard releases another single!
- you open a door each morning and eat some chocolate for breakfast.
- a group knock on your door and start singing an out of tune and mumbled ‘We wish you a merry …’
- there’s a different party in every week of December to go to.
- the Government want you to go back to your place of birth so they can do a census.
- your neighbours or friends invite you to come to church.
- you see people spending silly money on presents for their children.
- a candle flickering in the darkness is a sign of hope.
- an angel says your wife’s pregnant even though you’re both in - you start to question whether it was a good idea to invite all the family round at the end of December … for another year!
- you wonder once again at the possibility of God.
- there’s a new Harry Potter new Hobbit new Star Wars film out.
- your children come home from school singing the same tune over and over again.
- you’re trying to work out whether it should spelled Immanuel or Emmanuel.
- the Baptists go all Church of England and get the candles out!
- the Salvation Army Brass Band suddenly seem to be everywhere!
- you’re looking for a tea towel, and find that someone is wearing it on their head.
- you arrive at your destination and find there’s no room at the inn.
- you get cards through the letter box and its not your birthday.
- it becomes ok to put children on a stranger’s knee as long as he’s wearing red and got a white beard.
- you hear the words ‘and lo it came to pass …'
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