October 2013 - from the vicar
These past weeks,
through our worship, we have been focussing our thoughts on the issues of
discipleship and the role we each need to play in the church’s ministry.
We are fortunate to
be members of a liturgical church which provides a framework of themes week by
week and in step with other churches across the world which helps us keep
things in perspective. Week by week we
are mindful that God offers us his love and his life, without conditions, and
that each of us is quite special in his eyes. We need always to make space in
order to let him find us and for us to remember to find him.
Harvest speaks of how everything we have is a gift
from God, given and worked on by our hands, yes, a gift perhaps even further
developed by our own talents, yet, still something given by a gracious God. For
it is God who gives us the hands we need and the talents we have.
Harvest is always a time in our year to think about
how well God treats us, even when we are not treating him well or thinking all
that much about him. It is a time which makes us think about how, sometimes, we
do not really appreciate what we have, or behave as if we know where it has
come from.
Our Harvest Prayer is that we may be given an even
greater ability to appreciate all that we have, and to be prepared to share
that which we have been given, with others.
Michael
