Easter Service - 2009
Greetings Friends,
So Easter Sunday has come and gone… but in order to enable us to understand the fullness of the Resurrection, the “Easter Season” in the life of the church continues on until Pentecost (the 31st of May), and so in the coming Sundays, we will continue to talk about the various meanings of Easter.
This Sunday Rev. Tom Miles will be preaching on “The Road to Emmaus” (Luke 24:13-35); the Gospel Choir will be singing up a storm; and Gary will be doing Time with Children and Prayers. Sometimes the Sunday after Easter is called “Low Sunday” because everyone feels they went all out during Holy Week, and perhaps a Sunday “off” sounds appealing… let’s disprove that label … see y’all on Sunday!!
GLEANINGS
A poem by Julia McGuinness found in Seeds for the Morrow:
Some people travel in straight lines:
Sat in metal boxes, eyes ahead,
Always mindful of their target,
Moving in obedience to the coloured lights and white lines,
Mission accomplished at journey’s end.
Some people travel around in circles;
Trudging in drudgery, eyes looking down,
Knowing only too well their daily unchanging round,
Moving in response to clock and habit,
Journey never finished yet never begun.
I want to travel in patterns of God’s making:
Walking in wonder, gazing all around,
Knowing my destiny, though not my destination,
Moving to the rhythm of the surging of God’s spirit,
A journey which when life ends, in Christ has just begun.