At Wilsden Trinity, our Soupermums Group has
celebrated its third Christmas and we are bursting at the seams. It seems
incredible, but only just over two years ago we were sitting in our side room,
soup ready, bread warming in the oven, baby blankets on the floor, eagerly
awaiting our first ‘’customers’’ and none came. This situation continued for
some weeks and we were beginning to wonder if we had got the message right. Was
this really what the Lord wanted us to do? I suppose Noah must have felt very
much like that when he built the Ark on dry land. Now our numbers are regularly
in the high twenties or low thirties. You have no idea how much noise 33 crying
babies and chatting mums can make. Another experience Noah might have
identified with!
This always reminds me of the film ‘’The March of the Penguins’’ which
follows the journey of Emperor penguins to their breeding grounds. The female
penguin lays a single egg which she carefully transfers to the male who then
huddles together with thousands of other male penguins keeping the egg safe and
warm on his feet under his body. The female then travels many miles to the sea
to feed and bring food back for the hatching chick. When she returns, she finds
her chick and her mate amongst the thousands of penguins by singing her own
unique song, to which the chick replies with its own unique song and in this
way they are reunited. This is like the unique song which God sings to each of
us and requires a response from us which is also uniquely ours. Someone once
said – each of us has a verse to sing in the song of the universe and if we
don’t sing it, it will remain unsung.
Di
H, Wilsden Trinity
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