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Christmassed in !

The count down begins post a day after Christmas.I am 'Christmassed in' in Ashford because the public transports are not functioning this week.It has been a deeply calming christmas though.Was on call on christmas eve.A few hours before I actually went in for the duty at nine I felt a deep sense of calm and I knew that everything would be allright.I saw and felt the grace of God in bits and pieces of sunshine in the eve celebrated as Christ's birth.I felt covered by His grace and so it has been all this time post-christmas.Some things are beyond explanation and at this phase of my life I find myself bathed in His grace,perhaps it is the prayer of the believers.
Some things that brought a deep sense of joy in my heart was to see a daughter and a son (perhaps with families of their own )sit by a sick father's bed-side all through the night.I saw a daughter never leave a mother's side through the twelve hour wait in the corrider and further more just sat by the bedside once she was booked into a bed,not a sign of slightest vexation.A lady with MS had come in sick ,helpless but it was her birthday ,I felt extremely privellaged to be the first one to wish her a merry christmas and a happy birthday.Christmas morning as I walked to my flat in a sleepy haze and opened my fridge,I found a gift staring at me from my flatmate who had left for home for christmas.Was supposed to join my friend and her family in London for Christmas but could not..
I have but the last four months in UK and as I slowly but surely start winding up I do feel a sense of nostalgia.This time in the UK it has been a time of getting in touch with myself, has been deeply calming and satisfying experience in many ways.If the Lord wills it my brother and my neice would be joining me in the last month to travel across the UK before we leave for home in June.Post June ,if the Lord wills it,I would like to volunteer for a month in a church based,parachurch endeavour in one of the countries nearer home before I spend some time with my parents and then join back my organisation.

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