DECEMBER 25 NEWSLETTER

Julie Writes...

Dear friends,
Firstly, thank you so much for such a wonderful Christmas and for all your hard work to make the many events and services happen so well. I received some lovely feedback from many of our services.

So now we look forward to a New Year, and the joy, challenges and changes it may bring to us in our United Benefice and as individuals. Inside my kitchen cupboard I pin poems and prayers which have appealed to me at one time of another and looking again today I noticed M. Louise Haskin’s poem The Gate of the Year which seems relevant now.

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.

With God’s Love