At St Nicholas’ Church on Wednesday 16th November at 2.30 pm, our recently-formed prayer group will be meeting and we’d love you to join in. We simply talk about anything in the parish that might need our consideration and just pray together. People either say what comes into their minds or stay silent, as suits them.
If you would like to join us, you will be very welcome indeed.
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From time to time you may read or hear about someone who has ‘lost their faith’. They no longer go to church or have given up their Ministry because of problems with belief.
To ‘lose one’s faith’ is a strange phrase because faith is not a substance or commodity – a thing to be lost. Faith is about a relationship with the mystery we call God.
There are those people who are full of certainty, which in my view is a very worrying position to hold. The opposite of certainly is not doubt but faith.
Our Christian journey is about learning to live with questions. We cannot, by definition, know all the answers but we keep on our journey, as we say, ‘in good faith’. I suspect that many people hide their view on belief, thinking that others have no problems.
Believing is difficult, so join the club and let us journey together. For me, one of the most important words in the Bible is ‘Hope’. I find great encouragement in the words of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Chapter 11). Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen!
Hope, as they say, springs eternal and St Paul tells us ‘There are three things that last for ever. Faith, Hope and Love.’
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This week we have celebrated Harvest Festival. Sometimes it can be hard for those of us who live in towns to fully connect with the importance of good weather and a good harvest to carry us through the winter. However, as a gardener I have learnt over the years just how hard it is to get a good crop year by year. This year the cold weather at the beginning of the growing season and rain at the wrong times has resulted in a terrible runner bean harvest, as well as potatoes full of little holes. The skill and sheer hard work by our farmers and those across the world is something to really celebrate and give thanks for at Harvest.
But the Church also reminds us that all good gifts around us are sent from heaven above. So thank the Lord O thank the Lord for all his love. We worship a creator God who made our world so beautiful and fruitful and Harvest is a special time for giving thanks to God for the enormous beauty and variety of nature. But of course it is also a time for thinking of those who are less fortunate than us and so we traditionally bring gifts to give to others. In the Old Testament, we hear how the people of God always gave God the first and the best of the harvest. Giving God the first and best is how we are called to live as well.
Julia Peaty
Worth Parish 