Dear Friends

I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous,

Your handmade sky-jewellery,

Moon and stars mounted in their settings.

Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,

Why do you bother with us?

Why take a second look our way?

Psalm 8:3–4 from the Message

On television Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain have hosted Stargazing Live – looking at the vastness of the sky and how little we know.  

Even the moon, on which people have walked, continues to hold its mysteries. They now believe that water may have exploded from the sun and in some form may be in the moon. Our own pull of gravity controlled by the moon not only controls the tides but also pulls the shape of the rocks on earth.  There is continually more to find out and so people carry on exploring.

We also know so little about God who created this vastness and so we too need to continue to explore.  Lent begins on 22 February. It is the season to prepare us for Easter and all that God has done for us through his Son.  Many people will give things up for Lent, but I ask you this year to take something up – to find out more about God, to get to know him better.  Maybe join a housegroup, take up private Bible study, go along to Lectio Divina or Space in the City, prepare yourself for the Sunday Service by reading through the lectionary readings, start up a prayer group – to name just a few of the possibilities. 

If we are to grow in the love of God, personally and as a church, then we too need to take time to explore, to grow in knowledge and for God to become our personal God – the God that we know in our heart.  Remember the words of Jeremiah that we shared at our Covenant service:

This is the covenant.

I will put my law in their minds

And write it on their hearts.

I will be their God,

And they will be my people.

Jeremiah 31:33

I pray that this Lent you will want to explore further the great love of God.

God bless

Debbie