Dear Friends
Sunny days, light mornings and long bright evenings are all a part of May. As are the flowers coming out in the gardens, trees springing into bud in the parks and in church a month of celebrations as we join for worship to remember and celebrate Christ’s Ascension to heaven, Pentecost –the day the Holy Spirit was poured out upon those first believers and people began speaking in tongues – and Trinity Sunday, when we recall God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Of these three celebrations it tends to be Trinity that proves the greatest challenge for any preacher – how to explain the unexplainable? God is three and God is one…
For some of you May is also the month that exams begin. If you are taking SATs, GCSEs, A Levels or end of year exams/tests or are a teacher overseeing them we will be keeping you in our prayers and hope that it will be a peaceful, calm couple of months for you, before a well-deserved rest afterwards.
Rest and refreshment is something that we all need, David the shepherd boy knew the need for and God’s provision of this and he celebrated it in what we now refer to as Psalm 23: “[The Lord] makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul.”
Whatever you are doing this month of May, I hope that you have time and space to enjoy the beauty of the month and also to indulge in some Divine R&R!
Nicola
