Making Room

I've avoided Carols and the like so far, excepting elements of the festive musak blend that has proved an incessant background, increasing in volume over recent weeks.
Tonight at the Carol service, I found room. Some of the sung words still remain unfathomable, and the welcome inclusive language can still trip me up and in that remind me of an approach to faith that used to sound exclusive in a way that was just plain wrong.
I find a more open hearted and generous sense of what this is all about in the pews these days and in that sense something more authentic and good.
Here it is then.