I started doing the '12 BLOGS of CHRISTMAS' four years ago. Christmas is an extended holiday season for many and so it's an ideal time to rest, reflect and reconsider. So I thought it would be good to provide something helpful to prompt thought and reflection each day.
Most people have come across the 12 Days of Christmas today because of the famous song about someone receiving lots of presents from their 'true love'. However, to get to the song there had to be the days to start with!
The 12 Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and last until the evening of the 5th January - also known as Twelfth Night. They have been celebrated in Europe since before the Middle Ages and were traditionally a time to remember saints and other religious figures who each have a day dedicated to them. (Fellow Worcesterites will be interested to know that they 6th day, 30th December, is in honour of St Egwin from Worcester!).
However, my 12 blogs
are designed to encourage devotion to one supreme person - Jesus - and to stimulate a desire to live for him more wholeheartedly in the year ahead.
So while they will have Christmas flavour, they will increasingly become a prompt to look forward and prepare for the year ahead.
They start on Christmas Day. Look out for them. I hope you find them helpful.
