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Dear Friends
Advent is almost upon us. A time of waiting and anticipating what is to come. Waiting isn’t always easy, but we rejoice at the arrival of our latest grandchild. Thank you for all your good wishes.
This year hasn’t been the easiest for several of us. We have been challenged in a number of ways, but our loving and faithful God has carried us through some of the darkest days and the strength and love of our church communities has proved once again that there is always light shining in the darkness.
The opening words from John’s gospel that we hear so often during the Christmas period are important words for us to hang on to as we think about our world at this time.
John wrote;
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
We live in a world that seems at odds with the Christian messages of this season. There is war and unrest raging in many places and hunger, poverty, and disease disturb the lives of so many people.
If we think about the modern themes of advent, Hope, Joy, Love and Peace, we are drawn to pray for the places and people who see little of these things in their own lives. As we consider those who, in our minds, live in the shadows and the margins of life, we remember too that the God who is light shines tiny or large shards of light into this darkness and calls us to respond.
It is often in the most difficult of days we witness the light of God’s love transforming lives and it is then that we rediscover that incarnational truth of God with us.
May we take the hope, joy, love and peace of Christ we find within our own lives out into a world that desperately need to hear those words this Christmas.
Happy Christmas to you all,
Sue and Alex
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
Dear Lord,
You weep with the world
as it weeps.
Comfort your people
and help us to comfort
others.
Bring restored hope to
those we hold up before
you today.
May they know your
resurrection power.
Amen.
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