Matthew 2:13-23 listen to ‘The dark side of Christmas’ on Audioboo Today we look at the dark side of Christmas. The period of Christmas can be very painful. There is more domestic violence and more family break ups at Christmas than at any other time of year. It is that period when people can most feel their isolation and lonliness. And of course , if there are people we have loved who are no longer with us , it can hurt like hell. We tend to focus on the joy: the birth of the baby, the angels, the shepherds and the wise men. But that first Christmas also brought immense pain. And today we read about the slaughter of the innocents. Alison was about to show her class of 6 year olds the film ‘ The Nativity ’ . She thought she was on fairly safe ground. But she had to turn it off very quickly, b ecause it begins at the end of the story, with the...
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