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We hear regularly from Jumbo Kalue who was with us in Doncaster three years ago

 

 

NATIVITY GREETING FROM MALAWI
The days are very hot at this time of year as we wait for the rainy season to begin. The nights are pretty hot as well. When the moon is not yet up or has gone down, the sky is a huge black canvas with thousands and thousands of stars throughout. Night after night this great show moves imperceptibly above us. It is truly a wonderful sight.
Once the rains begin, the air becomes even clearer as all the dust and smoke in the atmosphere is washed away. The constellations of stars can be clearly marked out, each climbing up and then dipping below the horizon as the nights and the months pass by.
I often go out with a map of the night sky in one hand and a torch in the other. I look at the sky and then flick on the torch to see the map and figure out where all the constellations are situated : Orion, Aries, Pegasus, The Seven Sisters, Taurus, Gemini and even the famous Aquarius makes its appearance in due time. An even more memorable one for me this year is the constellation Scorpius (Scorpion) because I was stung by a Scorpion a few months back.
Christmas is near and the year is at its close. But with the night sky showing innumerable stars like pinpoints of white light, it is so easy to imagine another time when some others also looked up at the night sky and saw a particular star.
Now I seem to see it in a cluster of what looks like fuzzy smoke, called 'Large Magellanic Cloud, ' in my sky map. It is seen in the lower southern sky. And again I seem to see it in Andromeda Galaxy, an even fuzzier and fainter haze to the north.
Maybe it is the huge star that comes out of the east at this time of year just before dawn? And all this is accompanied by a vast silence. My imagination takes me up and away to another time and another sky; still in the same time zone as us here. The place, as we all know, is just outside Jerusalem.
Messages come from the sky even now. Far away thoughts bring us nearer to the great Maker of light and life. Its easy see the hand of something bigger than ourselves in a clear African night sky.
It also brings me to thinking of far away friends and carols and celebrations.
And the great gift of God; Jesus, our 'Redeeming Grace'.
We will be with you all in drum and carol and in the Christmas
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