Christmas Card Law

There are certain laws in life that no matter how hard we try it seems impossible to escape. There is; ‘Murphy’s Law’, anything that can go wrong will go wrong, who of us have not suffered from this one? Then there is the queue law, you know the one, no matter which check-out you choose in the supermarket it will be the slowest. There is also the teaspoon law, in the days before dishwashers when we washed the dishes in the sink no matter how thorough we were, every time we drained the water there was one teaspoon left in the bottom. I am sure that there are countless other laws that you can think of, I will just mention one more, one that is especially relevant this time of year. It is the one that states; no matter how many Christmas Cards you buy, write or send you will receive one more. In other words there will always be someone you have overlooked.


Of course there is a possible solution, delay writing your cards to the very last moment ,in that way you are simply able to reply to the cards you receive. There is however an inherent danger in this solution someone else could be waiting for yours! It is not so much that we have forgotten someone it is more likely that we simply have overlooked them.

In the run-up to Christmas it is very easy to overlook something or someone and although we understand that, we do not want be the one that is overlooked.

We read in the bible that God is a jealous God. Just, without doubt, Patient, beyond question, Merciful most certainly and Loving beyond compare but nevertheless jealous. “Thou shalt have no other God...”

However understandable it is to overlook someone in the Christmas hustle and bustle surely there is something wrong if we overlook the reason for the season.

Time is getting on, if you have not written your cards yet why not do it today and accept the inevitable that you cannot avoid or defy the law of the forgotten Christmas Card just do your best to make sure that it is not the Christ child you overlook