I think U2 sums things up for me this year.So many people think that they can do nothing to change the world. the fact is we can. We can start in our own neck of the woods. We can take up the opportunities that come our way and it is possible to create new ones. Just have a look and see what love has done. Click here

This year at St Andrew’s I believe we have had a wonderful opportunity to develop our prayer lives. The theme of Advent has centred around four of the great phrases from the Lord’s Prayer. “Your Kingdom Come! ” This has challenged all of us to see how subversive the prayer really is. It is a call to live in such a way that we set up an alternative way to live. To live forgiveness, to see that life centres around more than material things, and to discover that trials and challenges in live can become our sources of strength. Last week two teenagers turned up at the church they had heard about the little church in Dindigul that has a vision to build a small primary care centre for the woman of the region who need anti-natal care. “We going to have a three day silence to raise money for the building of the little clinic” they said. On the 3rd day when they broke their silence at the school service they had raised over three hundred pounds. their idea of silence got me thinking about all the times when we keep an inner silence. I posted a mediation about this last week. Here is the final version. It may provoke some thoughts for discussion.