Thoughts from The Vicarage with tennis, a talk, a 2 week edition!
Greetings! The Easter season continues – the church celebrates the Easter season right up to Pentecost, Whit Sunday May 19th. Please see the attached Pews News for prayer requests and events.
Also attached this week – fliers for a tennis tournament and social with proceeds going to All Saints Church Tower! Many thanks to Karen Hack and family – it’s your chance to win the coveted Charlie James Trophy. And a second is …
Karen Sperrey & James Pryer of East Garston are kindly giving an illustrated talk on ‘The Restoration of Church Cottage’ the how and why on Tuesday May 28th 2024 at 7.30 p.m.in East Garston Village Hall. Tickets: £6 in advance or £10 on the night, again all proceeds are going to the Tower Fund. This will be a most interesting talk about the sympathetic and complete restoration of an historic, listed building in East Garston.
The inaugural Lambourn Wellbeing Walk on Monday went really well with Victoria the volunteer guiding us and then returning at 12.30 for refreshments in church all beautifully laid out and ready for us. It was a gentle walk and I’m looking forward to the next one on April 22nd – meet at St Michael’s church 11.30.
If you are interested in becoming a PCC member, please speak to Katie, Jenny or Lise, myself or one of the churchwardens as soon as possible and complete a nomination form. PCC meetings are held about 6 times a year. Please consider whether you are called to stand, and also pray for the life and work of each PCC, its effectiveness, commitment and openness to the guidance of God.
And finally, Living Well in The End Times. The first session is on April 24th from 3.00 – 4.30pm at 4 Newbury Street. More info in church.
We will be on leave from Saturday April 13th to April 20th – many thanks to Christine for taking the helm.
Very finally a poem by Denise Levertov, “Primary Wonder”:
Days pass when I forget the mystery.
Problems insoluble and problems offering
their own ignored solutions
jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber
along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
their coloured clothes; cap and bells.
And then
once more the quiet mystery
is present to me, the throng’s clamor
recedes: the mystery
that there is anything, anything at all,
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,
rather than void: and that, O Lord,
Creator, Hallowed One, You still,
hour by hour sustain it.
God bless
Julie