 Welcome to the programme. The first item of business this afternoon is time for reflection. Our time for reflection leader today is Reverend Dr Bruce Ritchie, Church of Scotland Minister and tutor in Scottish Church History at Highland Theological College, The University of the Highlands and Islands. Presiding Officer, today we are five days before Christmas and I would like to reflect on the faith gyda'r great Scottish scientist James Clarke-Maxill, wrth gwrs yn Corsoch, near in Dumfriesson Galloway. Yn ymddangos James a ymddangos Cathryn, rydyn ni wedi gwneud ymddangos ymddangos. Rydyn ni'n gwneud ymddangos, rydyn ni'n gwneud ymddangos, ac rydyn ni'n gwneud ymddangos James rydyn ni'n gwneud ymddangos ymddangos ymddangos. Maxill rydyn ni wedi gwneud ymddangos ymddangos, wrth ddechrau ar ysgolig a bwysig. Yn ymddangos, rydyn ni'n gwneud ymddangos ymddangos ymddangos ymddangos. Mae ffordd gwneud ymddangos a'r ffordd gwneud deilig ar ymddangos. Rydyn ni'n gwneud ymddangos, rydyn ni'n gwneud, that the relationship between God and ourselves is what makes us what we are. We are not individual objects in isolation but we are created to be persons in relation. What we are in relation to God, what we are in relation to each other is what makes us persons. And Maxel drove this relational way of thinking deep into his science and into his faith. And in one of his letters to Catherine, he applied it to the central feature of Christmas, namely that in Christian faith Jesus is regarded as fully God and fully man. And for Maxel, God with us in the infleshed humanity of Christ enables us to know him. And for Maxel, God with us in the divinity of Christ enables him to change and transform us. And he wrote these words to Catherine, he said, For Jesus is man that we may be able to look to him and he is God so that he can create us a new in his own image. And that was his faith that Jesus enables humanity to know God when we look at him we see God himself. And as God Jesus takes our broken humanity and renews it, in order that the fragile and broken and damaged sons and daughters of humanity might become the healed and forgiven sons and daughters of God. And Presiding Officer, that was Christmas for James Clark Maxel, the knowledge of God and the healing of humanity. And our task as people in Parliament is to reflect that divine mission. The mission of healing and renewal, the mission of peace and justice, a mission of reconciliation and forgiveness, a mission of wisdom and compassion. We are made for each other and we are made for God. May God's blessing be on you and may careful wisdom surround all your deliberations.