Reflection of the week:

Do you prefer to be called a client, customer, patron, purchaser or an end point user. These all seem very far removed from popping into the local shop for a paper and being addressed by name. Someone who knows what paper you want and asks about your family.

The word client comes from the Latin word cliēns , meaning a follower, retainer, or someone who listens and obeys. : In Rome, a cliens was a plebeian who lived under the hereditary protection and guardianship of a patrician . The client provided loyalty, political support, and service in exchange for legal and physical protection. This does sound like we might be God’s clients but I much prefer to be called beloved child, intentionally and marvellously fashioned by God, as are you.

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

Psalm 139: v13-14