Dear OLP Family,

Merry Christmas! I do hope you all had a happy time with your families for Christmas dinner. But it takes more than a festive Christmas dinner for many families to really have a great time with each other. Bringing a family together requires the patience to listen, the selflessness to forgive, the commitment to heal and mend.

Dear OLP Family,

Merry Christmas! Christmas is that magical time of the year when glittering decorations line the streets and homes and children are eagerly waiting to open the gifts under the tree. One word that we need to understand and reaffirm at Christmas is ‘incarnation.’ It literally means taking flesh. Christmas is the feast of God incarnating as a human being.

Dear OLP Family,

Just ten days more! It’s the season to be jolly! Christmas and New Year season is an exciting time but it can also be a time of frenzy. Is it going to be a wonderful time filled with fun, peace, joy, laughter, optimism, fellowship, family, friends, good food, giving, winter activities, cozy evenings, and fond memories? Or is it going to be a miserable time for stress, anxiety, sadness, frustration, hurry, loneliness, disappointment, overworking, overeating, over drinking, and overspending?

Dear OLP Family,

The Advent season is a time of preparation. “A voice is calling, ‘Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness; make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.’” (Isaiah 40:3). We keep hearing this call from John the Baptist too, the immediate forerunner of the Messiah.