The Angel on the Christmas Tree

The Bishop preached at the Midnight Eucharist service this year, and I must recount his sermon opening.......

Santa had been busy all day packing the presents, Firstly he ran short of wrapping paper, then he ran out of sellotape. He paused and muttered "Things can't get any worse!"

So he decided to put his heavily laden sack on the sleigh. He tripped and his foot went straight through a runner."Things can't get any worse!" he muttered.

He went in to the stables to collect the reindeer. Two were sick, two had gone on strike, two just refused to get up and pull the sleigh and two demanded more food and shorter working hours, and as for Rudolf, he had lost the glow on the end of his nose."Things can't get any worse!" he muttered.

He went to the cupboard where he kept his favourite tipple, only to find that someone had been there before him, and there wasn't a drop to be found in any of the bottles. Then he heard a strange sound. Opening the door into the elves quarters, he found them rolling around the floor in a drunken stupor! "Things can't get any worse!" he muttered.

He went into his house to be met by Mrs Claus who said, "Did you know that mother is coming to stay with us for Christmas.............

and for a couple of weeks afterwards." "Things can't get any worse!" he muttered.



He heard a knocking at the door, so he went to open it. There stood the sweetest little angel you ever did see. She smiled sweetly at Santa and said, "Isn't it a wonderful night? I've brought you a present", and she produced a Christmas Tree. "Where would you like to put this?", she asked.

And that is how the Angel came to be stuffed on the top of the Christmas Tree!