What Do You Want For Christmas?

If you live in any part of the ‘developed’ Western World, you’ll have been racking your brains what to get your nearest and dearest for Christmas. It’s agony.

A couple of weeks ago, BBC ran a documentary covering the latest Band Aid (20) single called Justice Not Charity. Needless to say, it was shocking and not just because of all the teenypoppers pretending to care. I’m sure some of them were genuine - quite a few looked like they were in it for the photo op - “Which camera’s on me?”

Anyway, we’d placed an order for some stuff earlier in the day. After the program, we cancelled the order and donated the money to Band Aid. A friend of ours who was on Messenger that evening matched our donation.

To anyone who might be reading this: there are things you buy that you don’t need. Daily or weekly, you do this without realising. A DVD you don’t really want. A game. Your third take-away of the week.

Wouldn’t it feel good - every once in a while - to sacrifice those things you don’t need, and maybe help save some lives?