Daily Scripture“Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.” (Jeremiah 23:24)Daily Reflection This sounds threatening – and Jeremiah has a reputation for gloomy messages! This is part of an angry denunciation of those who claim to speak for God but are actually perverting the moral truth: but, the message is, truth is everywhere and will catch out the lies.Jesus also speaks of God as all-seeing, caring even about a couple of sparrows, counting the hairs of your head; and he talks about secret places – “when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you”.There are secrets we can keep from other people, even from ourselves, but none that we can hide from God, and none that we cannot discuss with Him. David Harmsworth
To join us on Sunday 21st June at 10am, please copy and paste these links into your search engine. Afterwards we meet via Zoom for our virtual coffee morning. We do hope you can join us.Service video (available from 8am Sunday): https://youtu.be/JDL8p-xg_tEService booklet: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Agkc8nXuU17kgvMlWhsXxd5myRBqqA?e=ejiZc8Readings: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Agkc8nXuU17kgvQp6vDemG-Jok6Jag?e=e4c1ZLZoom Virtual Coffee Morning, 10:45am:https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75362500502?pwd=NENUdktYU0YwS0V3dk1Ea0JORjRMdz09(Meeting ID: 753 6250 0502 Password: 2RpSWX)
Daily Scripture:“For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?” (Mark 8:36)Daily Reflection:With the opening up of the non-essential shops, I wonder how many of us have, during this lockdown, made the discovery that buying and owning “stuff” does not bring us the happiness we thought it did. Spending our time chasing after the newest gadget or the most up to date fashion in a vain attempt to make us feel good about ourselves. Unease and insecurity returning when a newer version comes along!God gave us LIFE to spend and not to keep - not for ourselves, but for the benefit of others. If we spend our time caring for the needs of those less fortunate than us, using our talents to make someone else’s life more bearable, then our own lives, our souls, find their true worth.Lyn Hayes, ALM
