Dear Friends,
Yet, in another sense, we have all learned how important it is to be together. Since I have been home I have been asked to arrange a funeral, and it was so important that all the family should be together when arrangements were made. What struck me at the time was just how much it meant to the bereaved to be together with the minister on that occasion. No masks, no barriers, common sense of course, but we were together both in person and in spirit, and I hope in spiritual empathy.
In our church too, we have learned the importance of being together for worship, prayer and fellowship. Common sense and hygiene are both still very important, but it is the being together that enhances our worship and enriches the fellowship we enjoy.
Today, we are thinking about the words of Jesus ‘Who do people say that I am?’ and also about who we ourselves are in the light of his love. It is that love which binds us together with all our fellow Christians in that great cloud of witnesses referred to in Hebrews. It is also that love that inspires us to reach out to others in his name and bring them into the circle of his love, so that we are all together with him. So as we return to the new normal, let us take nothing for granted as we look forward in faith to a new future as the church, the body of Christ, that lives to serve the world in his name.
With love and blessings,
Marion
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