Quote for the Season

Peace is having a hard time at the moment, which is why we pray for it more earnestly. At Bethlehem, God repudiates the "legions of angels" approach to peace and offers something longer, harder, more bewildering. The frailty of the gift and the way that follows from it, seems a little thing with which to lever the world and its hatreds. It is, however, enough. You cannot imagine with what fervent hope, I wish you this Christmas, this peace that passes all understanding and expectation.
                                    —The Rev Dr Alan Gregory