This is the second Sunday in the Season of Creation and when I first looked at the readings for today, I was rather puzzled as to how they might relate to such a theme.

Despite all the hype and the enticements to spend more, more, more, most families approach this time of year with a sense of expectation and delight . . .

Neil Diamond has a wonderful song about Signs – “some who never read them, some who never heed them” and it was actually a sign in the sky that those Persian astrologers were following (most probably the planet Jupiter) when they turned up in Jerusalem on 25th December, to find Jesus was a toddler, not a new-born babe.