Merry Christmas Everyone.

Bleh. Christmas day is officially over, drawing a close to another year's festivities. I guess I still like Christmas over all the other festivals in the year, it just give you that warm feeling i guess :D Ah well, warning to those reading this blog, this post is religiousy so if you dont want to read, dont.

Anyway, yesterday I attended mass at my church and today I went for service at my mum's church. And I realised that all religious people seem to have an attachment to the phrase "and they will call him Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace". I guess it is a great phrase if you believe in the "power of four" (i mean, what could be better than 3? 4 of course!) and also a great phrase to underscore the joy and hope that Jesus brought I guess.

But the curious thing is that, EVERYONE USES IT.

I don't go to my mum's church often and the last time I went there it was 4 years ago or something. It was a normal Sunday when the family felt very religious and cross-attended the two services. I remember the young ruth commenting that religious gabble was leaking out of her ears as she left the 5+ hours of solid churching. I remember my mother's, er....commissioner? ....Ah well the guy who was speaking, talked for the better part of that hour on the topic. I spent the better part of that hour thinking "read the 8 words and move on dammit!"

But today, on my return to the church, the speaker also used exactly the same phrase and spoke for the better part of half an hour on it. I spent the better part of that half hour thinking...well okay I spent the better part trying not to fall asleep. But point being, when me, my sister and my dad all walked out of the service, we all had the same comment: "Is that the only phrase they speak about in here?"

Well, of course not. But the strange thing is that we realised that Fr. Stephen Yim used the same line while celebrating mass too! I guess all the Christian factions do have things in common and at the time of Christmas, its time for all of us to put aside our differences and celebrate the birth of Jesus together :D I mean after all, he is the Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace, no?