Merry Christmas to you and to your family! Amid all the seasonal activities, concerts, food preparations, and decorating that are going on right now in your home, thank you for taking a few minutes out to contemplate the news in this edition of REALity, and to read my column.
At this time of year my mind is drawn to the broken families who will not be celebrating their holidays “en famille”. I think especially of the children who will not be celebrating Christmas with both of their parents, because it has been so dictated by the court: children who have little voice in the courts when their parents divorce. Often, their true wishes are ignored – their emotional welfare seemingly disregarded as lawyers and judges reach arbitrarily into their lives with the big stick of the law to wrench them from the embrace of one parent. Children desperately need the love, support and presence of both their parents to nourish them in their lives.
During Christmas and over New Year’s this year, please keep such children in your prayers. Pray for justice to come back to our land and to our courts. Pray that traditional marriage and the family will once again be protected by law and statute in Canada for the sake of our children. Pray for the thousands of parents, with aching hearts and empty arms, who will be denied the joy of the company of their children this special time of year. And thank God for your own family.
May God bless you and keep you, and grant you His Peace which surpasses all understanding this Christmas, as many Canadians mark the anniversary of the birth of His Son, Jesus Christ, who came to reconcile man to Holy GOD through his death and resurrection. This reconciliation is a magnificent gift for us all.
Until next time,
Laurie |
