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Buckden Roundabout
January 2018
Church News
Thought for the Month
Dear Friends
The New Year sweeps resolutely in determined to brush away not only the cobwebs of the Festive Season, but all
the webs which bind us like flies in the trap of our own choices. We are too weak to struggle free on our own; too
weak to change the things that our better selves nag at us to change.
So we resolve to make a revolution in our lives. A new year: a new me, we cry. I will join the Gym (and actually go!) I
will give up chocolate, smoking, buying shoes, watching so much TV, playing so many computer games …
A week later we look in the mirror and see… ourselves — unchanged, unrevolutionized, unsatisfactory, unresolved.
We still don’t know what constitutes a “portion” of our five a day and we still aren’t going to the Gym this evening.
Depressed yet?
I bring Good News! (I mean real honest-to-God, not fake, not spin, not Wikipedia, but actual Good News.) Change is
possible. We can become the person our better self urges us to be. Not by eating five a day or giving up chocolate or
exercising more, but by getting some help from the God who knows our potential and loves us whether we fulfil it
or not.
Why not brush away the cobwebs of excuses and sweep away the fashionable pseudo-rationalism of aggressive
atheism and give God a try. The easiest place to start is a Church. You will have to put up with some silly stuff, but at
least you don’t have to wear Lycra.
Paul, Buckden Methodist Church
STUDY LUNCHES
The study lunches continue on Mondays January 8th and February 12th.
Lent lunches start on Monday February 19th for 5 consecutive weeks
Methodist Church Hall 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm
Contact:
Ann Brittain
on
812012
Weekly Prayer Roster
Each week during the year the Churches, in their prayers, remember the residents of particular streets in the village, those who
work in the parish and village organisations. Those to be remembered this month are:
7th January
Church Street, Mill Road, The Barns, The Old Flour Mills
14th January
The Parish Council, The Village Hall and Playing Field Trust; those who help to run the Village
Hall, and the activities there
21st January
Greenway, Aragon Close, Hoo Close, Bishops Way
28th January
Village shops, and those who work in them; businesses based in the village, hotels, inns, and
those who work at home; homemakers, carers, the unemployed and underemployed, and all
visitors to the village
Thank You
The family of the late Nora Jackson would like to express their thanks to everyone who attended her Celebration of
a Life Service at St. Mary's on 5th December, and for all the kind messages of sympathy sent to Christine, Keith and
family.