Hello January

I’d like to wish you a Happy New Year and I pray it will be a blessed year for you and your loved ones.

It has certainly started cold with snow and storm Goretti! And if that isn’t turbulent enough, the political situation is certainly looking uncertain!

That’s when I turn to Minnie Haskins poem…

THE GATE OF THE YEAR

'God Knows'

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown".
And he replied:
"Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way".
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.
And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

So heart be still:
What need our little life
Our human life to know,
If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife
Of things both high and low,
God hideth His intention.

God knows. His will
Is best. The stretch of years
Which wind ahead, so dim
To our imperfect vision,
Are clear to God. Our fears
Are premature; In Him,
All time hath full provision.

Then rest: until
God moves to lift the veil
From our impatient eyes,
When, as the sweeter features
Of Life's stern face we hail,
Fair beyond all surmise
God's thought around His creatures
Our mind shall fill.

I find this poem comforting, we may not know what the year has in store but whatever happens, God is with us!

May God bless you in 2026 and be present with you in the calm and stormy places!

This year Alpha returns!

Alpha is also a great way to prepare for

   and this year we hope to join those at the Cathedral on Holy Saturday with people from our group who wish to be confirmed.  So if you would like to be confirmed, or are interested in learning more about what Christianity really has to say please email-sarahtierney336@gmail.com

  Where are we going?

When you want to go somewhere, it is essential to know where you are going!

This is true, not just for physical direction, but also when we want to grow spiritually.

In Psalm 32 God Says:

‘I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my eye upon you’

Which is why after prayer, consultation and reflection I create a Mission Action Plan each year to help our group of Churches grow in God’s direction. It’s time for us once more to start that consultation and this year the PCC’s are gathering to think about this in late January. If you have something you want to add please email me or speak to a Church Warden or PCC member, we’d like to hear your views so please join in.

This month’s photos was taken at St Sebastians Carol Service.