Mid Week Musings

Dear All

I have managed to catch up with a few sessions online with the Astronomical Society of Cambridge University.  It has been fascinating and mind boggling.  The cosmos is strange, beautiful and bewildering.  Then I came across this from a podcast by Mike McHargue - scientist, author and Christian which I really like:

Earth’s life is fed by a process in which carbon from the air and minerals in the soil are attached together by the energy of photons via photosynthesis in plants. In this process, everything on this planet lives by the constant sacrifice of the nearest star. Every blade of grass, every tree, every bush, every microscopic algae on this planet is a resurrected form of the Sun’s energy. . . .

One day, I will die, and in time my atoms will go back to giving life to something else. Much farther along the arrow of time, our own Sun will explode and spread its essence across the sky. Our Sun’s dust will meet with other stars’ remnants and form new stars and planets of their own. The universe itself exists in an eternal pattern of life, death, and resurrection.

It seems poetically appropriate that the Source of all would have left this divine signature on the fabric of reality. In Jesus, I hope for more than just a God with a face or a uniquely gifted moral teacher. I hope for a resurrection that will one day reach every corner of our universe.'

You will all, no doubt, have heard that the government has announced that from 4th July churches can have services - with appropriate social distancing, etc, and no singing.

Georgina and I have discussed this and we have decided that we will not be starting services in any of our churches again until 2nd August.  There are three main reasons for this:

• We need to plan carefully and prayerfully how we are going to best restart our services with all the appropriate safety measures in places, and we are not going to rush into this.
• Many members of our congregations are still shielding until 31st July, and we would like to find a way from 2nd August to bring them back into church.
• Both of us need a break!  I am going to be taking the week beg. 11th July off, and Georgina the week beg. 25th July.

It is also possible that by 2nd August things will have moved on again and holding services will be a bit easier.

Blessings

Ann 

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Rev'd Ann Kember

Rector of St Mary's Chard, St Nicholas Combe, St Mary's Wambrook and St Andrew's, Whitestaunton

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