I wonder where you’re at this morning. Calm, serene, joyful, chilled, tired, anxious, stressy. We’ll all be in different places, different spaces.
The focus of my sermon today is trying to help us think about being more contemplative in our lives – I’ll unpack later what I mean by that – but to start, take a deep breath – maybe two and relax. Be present to this time and this moment.
This Sunday we’re looking at one of Jesus’ best know miracles – changing water into wine. It’s an image of abundant grace.
Every Thursday we run a free Women Only FREE English Class and Friendship Group. All kinds of women attend, but refugees and asylum seekers are particularly welcome. The group is small and friendly and providing a vital service for the women.
Our small, but wonderful English Class and Friendship Group for Women.
Conscious dancing is a worldwide phenomenon. A safe space is created where you can lose yourself in the music and experiment moving your body in new ways. This is movement medicine to boost your sense of wellbeing and bring you back to your body. You are free to move how you like, just stand still and sway, rave in a frenzy, pull out your best dance moves or float about, its your time to express your present moment in life through movement.
We’ll be focusing our thoughts on Jesus’ baptism and what it means for God to called us by name. A time for re-connection with God at the start of the new year.
The Feast of Epiphany – where we celebrate the journey the wise men made to find Jesus. It’s an intriguing story, full of mystery, wonder, yearning and we’ll be using the story to think about moments of realization, journeys and seeking Jesus in our lives.
God comes to us. That is the message of Advent, and the message of Christmas: God comes to us. That’s really all I have to say today, but being a preacher I’ll say it for quarter of an hour.
Advent is one of my favourite seasons of the church’s year. I’m an outwardly-focussed extrovert, born in July and happy in bright spaces, but my inner self is more introverted, more melancholy, more attune to existential issues.