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Please see poster below advertising our forthcoming brass band concert. 
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October is a month of transition, a month in which we will see the clocks go back and which signals the approach of those autumnal festivals of Halloween, Bonfire Night, and Remembrance. Christmas is round the corner some might say, well perhaps they’re jumping the gun and, in the process, missing out.
My prize for the earliest mention of Christmas in a supermarket category goes to Morrisons in Totton, which we came upon in their store on the 31st of August just as we were embarking on our summer holidays. Interestingly the mince pies on display were ‘best before’ 13th October! It feels at times that, as a society, we aren’t satisfied with the humdrum days. We’d rather look forward to festivals and holidays, putting our head down and pushing through the bits in-between. And yet those in-between days are the days where life really happens. In the gospels we tend to get the highlights of the life of Jesus; what the gospel writers leave out is the days of walking on foot between towns and villages with his closest disciples. These would have been important times for Jesus. They would have been times of reflection, discussion and mental rest, times of staring off into the distance of the Judean countryside. They would have been times when Jesus was able to ‘try out’ his sermons and teaching on his friends, who knows perhaps they gave him critical feedback and influenced either what he said or how he said it. In the second week of October, I will be attending a conference entitled, ‘Dwelling in the problem: An Exploration into Authentic Flourishing’. I am yet to discover the details of the conference but am fascinated by the title. As a Christian, I can’t help thinking about the words of Jesus in the gospel of John, Chapter 10, verse 10: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. A full life for me means living fully in the moment, not waiting for better times around the corner while we let the days slip away. The encouragement here is to live each day as it comes, to be open to new experiences, to learn and grow – no matter how old we might be. Living life to the full is recognising that each day is a gift from God. So, let’s celebrate the 1st of October, the 2nd of October and …. God bless, Revd. Steve Chapman |
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