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| ![]() | ![]() October/November 2014 NewsletterDear Friends ![]() The autumn colours are beginning to turn the gardens and countryside lovely shades of red, orange and brown. We are fortunate that we can enjoy the changes as each season comes. In church life changes come each year and this is good because it shows that new things are happening. We need to be firmly rooted in our belief in God and that we are called to serve and help God’s Kingdom to come, but each year there will be pruning to do and the old leaves may fall and need gathering up while we wait for signs of new life to come again. Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. … will God not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ … But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:25-34)
In 2007 Jason, Steve and the team pedalled up the Thames to the finishing point at Greenwich in the £26,000, 26ft wooden unique pedal-powered boat Moksha (meaning ‘liberation’ in Sanskrit). At noon they took the boat across the Meridian Line marking the completion of the circumnavigation, 13 years after they first set off. An amazing travel story of two young men setting out facing each day until they achieved their goal. Grab hold of life; don’t worry because God will look after you. Remember pruning brings new growth. Take each day as it comes, deal with what it brings and enjoy it! With loveBridget
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