Dear Friends

Spring forward fall back - is the line I use, as many do, to remember to move the clock in the right direction at the correct season, when we either gain or lose an hour. 'There is a time for...' is a well know passage from Ecclesiastes, reminding us that everything has its appropriate time, Summer, Winter, Springtime and Harvest, gathering, discarding, Peace, War, years, laughter, God has made everything to suit its time!

I used to sing as a young person in church:
'In His time, He makes all things beautiful, in His Time!'

These are both comforting and challenging words, they speak clearly to our impatience, our intolerance, our refusal to understand that wherever we are in our life's pilgrimage, we are in God's hands and no matter how ugly or painful our circumstances, maybe, in God's time, both change and transformation will most certainly come.

I have a little mantra which affirms me and is so very true 'now is not always' are great words to reflect upon. The truth of change is an absolute certainty and no matter how intolerable this moment may be, God can and will mould it into something beautiful in His time.

Our response as we gain an hour or lose an hour, is to continue in God's timeline, trusting as the moments fly, believing in absolute faith that our God is with us, every moment of every day.

Recognising this truth, I give you these words I read, that should be our response to whatever these times are bringing you:

Give, but don't allow yourself to be used!
Love, but don't allow your heart to be abused!
Trust, but don't be naive!
Listen, but don't lose your own voice!
and walk humbly with your God every step of the way.

God bless you,
Crawford

Rev CJ Logan, Minister