Revd Joy’s Winter Message

As Autumn draws in and the Winter begins and we all start to snuggle under blankets with extra hats and scarfs, this is a wonderful time to stop and look back in remembrance. As the crumbs are swept up from the Harvest barn dance, we have a month to stop and take stock. From our All-Souls service (30th October 6pm), to Remembrance Sunday (13th November 10.30am), to the reminder that Jesus reigns over all of it (Christ the King Sunday 20th November) we have a month to stop and think.

Which is exactly what our Faith Sharing team will be doing through November and December; looking back over this last year, all we have learned together, all the new things we have been growing, all the changes that have shaped us in new ways. These are the months for reflecting on the past, before we face forward once again to the future and walk into a new church year (beginning with our Advent Service of Light, Sunday 27th November @ 6pm).

What changes has this year held for you? How have you grown? What are you glad has been and gone? What are you hoping for next? Take the time, if you can, stop and think about these things.

We are starting the same story all over again, but hopefully we are no longer the same people. Instead, we continue to grow and change in the likeness of the God who made and loves us. Would we be brave on the journey this year has in store for us and always remember the things that make this possible.

And, as the winter draws in and we take the time to think, would we extend a hand of welcome and love to those in need around us. After all, we do not set out on this journey alone, and the future is made to be shared. Revd Joy