Celebrations

Last Saturday evening I attended a Masked Ball to celebrate the Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary of a couple in my congregation. It was such a lovely event.

The Prayer I composed in Thanksgiving may be found as a Wordle here: Wedding Prayer Wordle

It is always lovely to be part of the celebration moments in people's lives... and a real privilege to be asked to contribute in such a personal way.

I composed a Grace too - to be sung to Tallis' Canon:

For all God’s gifts, for food and wine,

We thank him true, and pray this time

Spent with good friends and family,

be filled with mirth, and jollity. Amen.

It's not fantastic prose, I know... but it made us smile!

The end of a long - but good - day

There is always so much to be done - and the warmth and sunshine of today has made it so much more enjoyable.

We had our School Christian Lunchtime Group today - at which there were 31 children - this is great! It was amazingly noisy though.

I am really excited that young people want to know something more about God, and are willing to give up the time to discover more - especially when the sun is shining outside.

I do believe that if we are willing to put in the effort, then memories are made that are good and positive and contributory factors to the building of community.