October - November 2019 Price 50P
October - November 2019 Price 50p BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS … By the time you read this it will By the time you read this, the and I do so want to make the all be over! The marquee will Summer will be well and truly most of it, to linger over some have gone up, been taken down be over. The school holidays of it, to press pause and and driven away. Dresses will will be over, and a new term remain in certain bits of it. The have been worn and shoes begun. In fact, it will nearly be words of the wise teacher in danced in. Nails will have been half-term, and the nights will be the book of Ecclesiastes manicured and hair coiffured. drawing in, and the clocks springs to mind, ‘For Drinks will have been downed ready to go back. By the time everything there is a season, and cake will have been eaten. you read this, Harvest will have and a time for every matter Flowers will have been been well and truly gathered in under heaven … God has made arranged, and petals will have and the season of everything beautiful in its time. been scattered. Oohs will have Remembrance will be ahead of Also He has put eternity into been oohed and aahs will have us – but only just. people’s hearts.’ (Ecc 3: 1, 11) been aahed. No doubt speeches will have been made, Of course, eternity is outside jokes will have been cracked, normal time, and I find it a and the odd tear may well have comforting thought, as I feel been shed.
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