Dubai Christmas, is it real?

boys in Church on Xmas Day

Grandpas wash up 

boys in the country outside Dubai

And then go to sleep

The best thing about Dubai is that it has sprung out of the sand and become a place of business, a place to live, a place to realise dreams and a place to visit your family if they live there.  Dubai city is so new and so outrageous in its ability to achieve the almost impossible that a cynic might find it phoney.  However, it just shows how dreamlike all the things we think are real are.  Once upon a time Westminster Abbey was new, once the huge stones at Stonehenge weren't there and you can bet that when those huge stones were rolled across the plain and when Westminster Abbey was built, someone was there saying the whole Stonehenge idea was impractical and the Abbey a bit over the top!  So, Dubai, thanks for showing just how a dream becomes a reality and for hosting a jolly nice Christmas which was probably much nearer to the weather and the feel of the original Nativity.  There was something very moving about attending Church on Christmas morning here, the story really came to life.   The idea that a complete and total realisation of God could become a human being and make the words grace, truth and love a way of life to aspire to seemed totally possible.

Was this what it looked like all those years ago? just between Oman and Dubai.