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Our Rector Revd Sharon Lord writes………

November marks the end of the harvest and the beginning of Winter.

We begin with All Saints Day celebrating the lives of those who have experienced the regular unmerited favour of God. This day provides an opportunity to give God thanks for that grace and wonderful way those lives have been shaped leaving us with their stories and teaching.

We then come to Remembrance, commemorated with our service on Sunday 10th November (at 10.30am and Armistice Day at 10.55am). At these services we explore the theme of memory, both corporate and personal, as we confront the ongoing issues of war and peace, loss and self-sacrifice, memory and forgetting.

Daylight of course gets shorter. Sometimes that can make us feel a bit sad, with a longing for the long summer evenings to return. Getting out and about in winter does help, being with others does help, perhaps pop along to our coffee morning on a Wednesday, or Patronal Café (see poster) perhaps join one of the many groups that run in our hall.

There is another aspect to light and the dark nights, St Paul writes in Thessalonians: “For (we) are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night”.

We become light, bringing love and kindness into our community in the midst of darkness. We plant love, we become light and bring joy within our community . In the words of Edith Wharton, “there are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”.

We can be both.

Blessings

Sharon