For many people Christmas is a day filled with joy, family and good cheer. But for others it is the loneliest day of the year. “It’s a time of year that many people feel a real sense of absence and loss and despair,” Wayside Chapel chief executive Jon Owen told AAP. But that’s something charities like his are hoping to change, pulling out all stops to show love to people who are homeless, those who are ostracised from their families, and others separated from their loved ones by domestic and international borders. It has already been a terrible year for most people, the pastor says, so the Wayside Chapel is determined that its annual Christmas lunch in Sydney’s Potts Point won’t be cancelled for the second year running. “It broke our hearts last year not to be able to hold one in quite the same way,” he said. “For so …