MAY I first of all send everybody best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.
Christmas is a time both to reflect on the year gone by and to look forward to the challenges and hopes in the year ahead.
It’s a time for children and for people throughout the world.
What I especially love about Christmas is that people make time for each other and find the space in their busy lives to visit and actually talk to one another.
The Christmas spirit infuses most of us as we’re happier, more generous in spirit and giving, kinder, more considerate and more tolerant of each other.
But we should never forget what Christmas is really about.
Shopping, exchanging presents, eating, drinking, watching television of dubious quality – yes.
But we’re doing it because Christmas is when the son of God in the form of Jesus Christ came to earth.
One of the best parts of Christmas for me are the weeks beforehand – the anticipation of being with family and friends – and I always hope that the Christmas spirit will live on long after the event.
It can do, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t, so let’s all make a New Year’s resolution that it will.
Councillor Alan Amos
Mayor of Worcester
