Wishing you Merry Christmas with joy and peace on Christmas Day today!
In the blink of an eye 2022 has come towards the end. Although the pandemic has not yet ended completely, our lives have gradually returned to normal. Despite of the fact that more and more of our relatives and friends have become infected with Covid, praise God that most of them can recover quickly or slowly. Therefore, during this traditional festive season in celebrating Jesus’s birth, we still have a lot of opportunities to gather with our friends and families. What can we do while we gather with people? Maybe catching up and greeting, chatting along with a meal? After the brief greeting of each other have we thought of finding a few topics that we can have more in-depth sharing?
We all hope to establish a closer and more sincere relationship with our family and friends. During the Christmas gatherings, a lot of families would prepare a sumptuous meal and create a comfortable environment to provide our loved ones a good and relaxed time with each other. To make this well-prepared time more meaningful and valued, we may want to think about how we can prepare for them not only satisfaction in their mouths, but also higher satisfaction and comfort in their spiritual needs?
If we want to make our conversation more meaningful the first thing we need to do is to pray. We need to pray for the presence of God that He can reveal to us a suitable topic to chat about when we meet with each other. Secondly, before the gathering we can consider what kind of topic people will be interested in, so that we can invite them to share happily. As Jesus’s disciples, have we thought of how we can share about our gratitude in God, or what God has done in my life, or even to tell everyone what is the most precious lesson I have learned during the year?
It is a great time that we can gather with families and friends during the festive season enjoying our time chatting and dining together. Let us pray for God’s mercy and provision of wisdom and grace, that we do not stay in the stage of superficial chatting, but to be able to share more deeply and sincerely with the opportunity we are given. Pray that we can have more in-depth sharing, to build up our relationship and bonding and to be good witness for our wonderful gracious Lord Jesus.
今天是聖誕節，祝大家聖誕快樂，喜樂平安！
轉眼之間，2022年又到了尾聲。疫情還沒有完全結束，但是我們的生活已經日漸恢復正常，雖然周圍感染的親朋好友日益增多，感謝神的是，大部分人都或快或慢的復原了。因此，在這個慶祝耶穌誕生的傳統假期裡，我們仍有很多機會可以與朋友家人相聚。在相聚的時候，我們可以做什麼呢？或許彼此寒暄，吃飯聊天。在簡單的打招呼之後，我們是否有想過，如何嘗試找到一些話題，可以更深入的彼此分享？
我們都希望在家庭或朋友之間建立更密切更真誠的關係。在聖誕假期的聚會裡，許多家庭都會預備豐盛的食物，營造舒適的環境，希望提供給所愛的家人朋友一個美好又放鬆的時間。為了這樣精心準備的時間更有意義和價值，也許我們可以想一想，如何也為家人朋友們預備心靈裡的食物，使大家非但口中吃的滿意，心靈裡也得到更多的安慰和滿足？
若希望在聊天話題上有所建樹，首先，我們能做的就是禱告，懇求神與我們同在，啟示我們合適的話題，可以在聚會的時候一起交流。其次，在聚會之前，我們也可以思考，什麼樣的話題，是大家都會感興趣的？是可以讓大家都愉悅地分享的？尤其作為主耶穌的門徒，我們如何在這樣的機會里分享我們的感恩？或者是見證神在我身上的作為？又或者，告訴大家我所學到的最有價值的功課是什麼？
和家人朋友們一起吃飯聊天，享受假期的愉悅，是最美好的時光。求神憐憫施恩，加給我們智慧和恩典，在這樣的機會裡，不僅僅停留在表面的寒暄，而是通過簡單而真誠的分享或者有意思的話題討論，使彼此有更深入的交流，加深我們的關係，也成為主耶穌奇妙恩典的美好見證。
