The Beneficial - May and June 2025

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. ISAIAH 43: 18 – 19

God is a mass of paradox and seeming contradictions. Yes, the Rock of Ages, the foundation of all we do and are, the Alpha and Omega, and ever-present help in trouble, ever faithful, ever sure; but also an ever-expanding, deepening companion on the journey. And it’s journeying that we do as humans. Look at society - only just over a hundred years ago women could not vote, children were sent up chimneys at eight years old, slavery was only recently being ended. ‘The arc of history bends towards justice’, President Obama quoted. Journeying is a creative act, responding to what you encounter whilst moving forward. God is present in all ages, but the blessings given us are new every morning. Like another journeying being - a river, it both always remains a river, but it’s also new in each heartbeat.