By Jake Scott2023-12-21T09:54:00
A staunch atheist, Jake Scott was not interested in God. But when he attended a Christmas mass with his nan, it unlocked something in his heart
Every Christmas, my nan attended mass. When she and my grandad would visit us, someone would volunteer to drive her to the church, drop her off, and pick her up again once the mass was finished.
As a young boy, and especially as a teenager, it struck me as odd - why would she not want to relax on Christmas Day? Of all the days in the year, surely this was the one to not feel like you had to do anything. It didn’t help of course that I was an unrepentant and unashamed atheist back then.
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