“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”
Micah (5:2), King James Version
- Marienkirche Leeste, Germany / Christmas 2007
Last Christmas, Pastor Brusermann at a local church near my hometown (Weyhe’s Felicianius Church) told the congregation that Christmas also meant that “this world could be made good, again”.
The reverends inspirational sermon stuck with me, and the beauty and the power of the nativity story occurred to me, again, and anew.
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrival’s gate at Heathrow Airport.”
Fictional UK Prime Minister David of the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually.
