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Dear Friends
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Do you sometimes feel you’re always having to do this or do that? To fit too much into your day? You run out of time. Well I do. Even in retirement, I hear myself saying, no doubt like some of you: “I’ve retired but I don’t think I’d have time to work even if I went back!” This could equally apply to a stay home ‘home maker’ who hasn’t had to go out to work; of course, as they get to a more advanced age.
I am, in a way, retiring from St.Neots Church. I have been serving as an Elder again. I last stopped being a serving elder in Emmanuel URC in 1984, 40 years ago. But all these Facts and Figures are not important. Another word beginning with ‘F’ is that of Fellowship. That is what I found whilst being amongst you all. The Faith we’ve shared as Friends and the last word in my sequence - proceeded by a not - is not Forgotten. You will not be forgotten. Indeed we can read exactly how this is in the Bible in Philippians 1:1-11.
I thank God every time I remember you….because of your sharing in the gospel… I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work amongst you will bring it to completion by the day of the Jesus Christ….And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight. (Verses 3,5a,6,9)
The above may need reading several times, or aloud. I feel it reflects the chemistry that IS
at work at the church. After all, the word church means people not the building.
This will be my last piece of bi-monthly contributions. As I leave you for new pastures. Please see elsewhere in this newsletter, about where Sue and are geographically heading, even if the church we will be a part of in the future has yet to be decided.
You may have noticed when I am guided to write a reflection it usually ends with a challenge as well as containing some encouragement. Well. Do you recognise God and know for sure that he is the one you are ‘Following’. Or, if you are honest, are there ways you sometimes resist God’s guidance and prefer to carve your own path in life?
So, I may be retiring, but I am continuing to work with God in my life, and I pray, and thank you for your prayers as I journey on following Him. Between us we will discern his Future (another word starting with that letter). May he guide you down the right paths also, I pray. Amen.
Love and Blessings to you all.
Lewis
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