Happy New Year! Another year has come around – already!! With another set of resolutions? Yet more opportunities to take up a hobby or start a new interest? The advertisers are not slow at engaging us with new subscriptions and the like. New year has always been a time to reflect on the past year and try to make something better for the new one just started. However the majority of New Year’s Resolutions are broken or put to one side even before the first month is out. Such pressure we put ourselves under in order to change some undesirable habit, or start something fresh. I wonder whether it is all too hasty for us. We are all creatures of habit, whether undesirable or not. Perhaps we need to learn to love the self that is already there, to make a promise to ourselves to be who we really are, not the self that others might want us to be, or that media pressure makes us feel we ought to be. New beginnings and opportunities can come from the most surprising and often mundane of places, often whilst we are not looking. So i’ve made no resolutions this year, signed up to no new subscriptions. But I am leaving myself open to new possibilities to see what just comes by. Instead of a resolution this year, make a promise to yourself, but not just yet, the time for promise making is yet to come. Allow this month to dwell with us and the year to bring its own offerings. When we do make a promise to ourselves it might just be one that we are able to keep, and is not made out of the desire for a quick fix solution to something that will probably never change much anyway! I hope the new year brings with it much for you to enjoy and delight in.
We are entering the harvest season. Sunday 3rd in Llanasa and Gronant, then at Ffynnongroyw the following week beginning with a Harvest Supper on Saturday 9th, and the service on 10th. The services at Llanasa and Ffynnongroyw will be an Agape… If you’ve never experienced one, then you’ll have to come alone!
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