Mearns Kirk

My Dear Friends,

She said, we know we can never be the same again - but we can be something again. These were the words of a woman who agreed with her husband to get back together after a long separation. I was thinking about these words as Christmas approaches.

Some of you may approach this Season feeling that your life has changed beyond recognition during this past year. You feel like a different person living in another world. This letter is especially for you.

If your life has been turned up-side down by events during this past year, you know that you will never be the same again. However, you can be something again.

The Child born at Bethlehem explained the meaning of his coming when he said I have come that they might have life. God wants you to live again.

Christmas is a good time to remember that He is able to renew your life. It may not be the same again - but it can be something again. That something need not be less. God never gives less from his hand than we lose from ours.

What remains is to decide what you will do about the life he offers. Many people have
experienced God giving 'something again' at the very time they wondered if they would ever be the same again.

Maybe you can become one of them and live again this Christmas.

Betty and I wish you a Happy Christmas and a Good New Year.

Your friend and Locum