What a fantastic opportunity we have through singing Christmas Carols together: to share the Good News with our friends and neighbours that God, in the person of Jesus, came to our earth and lived as one of us.
God therefore can understand all that being human means: including the sickness, loneliness, frustration (and so many other things) that have come because of Covid-19. Humans are meant to live in community with one another – we are meant to share meals together, demonstrate our feelings through appropriate touch, socialise, work, worship and exercise together. We are meant to SING together!
Singing is scientifically proven to benefit us in so many ways. It releases dopamine which lifts our spirits. It exercises our lungs, helping oxygen to flow through our bodies. And singing together with others helps us to become more socially aware; it helps to bond people together.
That is why I urge you to join in with the Rendlesham Community Carolling (online) and the Doorstep Carols this month. Let’s raise our voices in community, to sing praise to our God who humbled himself as a man so that he could be fully present with us now in all that we’re going through in these dark days of Covid-19.
Rachel Parsons
