Dear Friends,
As I came to
preparing this article, I started to think about the years in my life, which
ended with a six and what of significance for me, personally, happened in those
years.
1966 My brother was born and as a family we moved
into the house in Leeds where my mum lived, up until a year ago.
1976 I attended my first cricket match at
Headingley, Leeds. A match between
Yorkshire and Lancashire. A little
disappointed that Geoffrey Boycott did not play.
1986 I finished my Accountancy and Finance degree
and started work as a trainee Chartered Accountant. Beth and I got married.
1996 Beth and I went to Oxford for me to train
for ordained ministry.
2006 Beth and I went on a tour of the Holy
Land. A fantastic experience.
I have a love of
history, with, my favourite battle happening in Sussex on 14 October 1066.
It is interesting,
when you stop to think about it, how you can map things which shape our lives,
across the decades. Other years have
contained other things, some of which have been good and some have been hard,
at times very hard. In all of this, God
has been and continues to be with me, loving, caring, forgiving. Sometimes I am aware of this and sometimes I
am not.
Perhaps you already
have something of a sense of significant things coming in 2016; moving house,
birth of a child, finishing a course, surgery; or perhaps not. However 2016 unfolds, Jesus invites us to
keep close to him, to allow him to work in and through us. For us to be a people of prayer, engaged with
the world Jesus came, died and rose again for, and for us to share him, as we
share our life with others.
Every blessing for
2016
Revd Andrew
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