Questions

A couple of days ago Ian over at youthblog posted about the question box his daughter had said they now had in their group at church, he went on to talk about questions you can read his post here. The reason for mentioning it was that it reminded me of a great question I was asked a few months ago by my (then) not quite 5 year old son. We were in the car driving back from somewhere when he suddenly asked me “Daddy did God make the whole world?” “yes” I replied, “does he make the world spin?” again I replied “yes”, “well how does he keep it spinning at night when he’s asleep?” I’m not sure how well he grasped the idea of God not sleeping I think it all seemed a bit much to his mind, haw can you not sleep, but it’s really encouraging as a parent to be asked these questions or hear your children asking them, it’s little insights into their minds but also the simplicity of their questions can sometimes get us thinking through things ourselves.

Grace

Just two weeks late wanted to talk about Sunday 7th Jan. On this date we had a daughter Charys dedicated. It was a really great day, the whole service just all fitted together so well, we are just starting a series on John’s gospel and on the 7th we were looking at John 1:17 “The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (NRSV). Charys is the Greek word for Grace so this all fitted together really well. The service was fantastic with a great talk by Charles our Vicar and everything just fitting together so well. It was also great to have so many family and friends around to celebrate with us and join us for Lunch, it was a really great day for which we really give thanks to God. Thank you to those who were able to be with us on the day and help to make it so special.