Whether it is ‘Dry January’, ‘Veganuary’, ‘No Mow May’, ‘Movember’ or some other programme, we often come under pressure during a particular month or season to change our behaviour in some way for the better. Diets, de-tox, ‘wellness’, fitness: the list goes on.

If ever you have found yourself wondering what life is all about, here is a short but profound thought from Caryll Houselander: ‘Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives; that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and wariness. But it may be that God has sent
us there because but for us Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile’

‘Things will soon pick up’; ‘Why don’t people come to church anymore?’; ‘it never used to be like this’; ‘Where are all the children?’; ‘What is going to happen to us?’; ‘Who will take over when we are gone?’

Deanery reorganisation...

July Diary Dates

In our current series of Benefice discussion groups we are looking together at some of the parables that Jesus told.The parables are one of the ways in which Jesus made the Kingdom of God relevant to the daily lives of those who came to listen to him speak.

May 2023