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MANEA MATTERS
MANEA MATTERS
St Nicolas’ Church Services

HAPPY NEW YEAR
As I sit down to write this piece, I am conscious that I am still in the cold of
winter. This morning the frost on the garden hedge lit up the spiders’ webs
creating a beauty that, although I’d seen before, never ceases to amaze me.
Such a thing of creation, yet so transient, producing an inner feeling of wanting
to preserve such beauty. Then my mind goes to the reading I’m looking at for
Sunday’s sermon. It’s from Matthew and Jesus is saying about God’s creation of
the grass fields that are here today and tomorrow thrown into the fire.
The warmth of the sun soon dispensed with my beautiful frost pattern only to reveal
a carpet of snowdrops. By the time you read this they too will have been replaced by
daffodils, then bluebells, all transient in the changing beauty of the seasons.
All this creation and beauty and Jesus tells us that we are worth so much more. So,
if God provides for the birds and animals without their need to sow and harvest, how
much more will he provide for us.
His message is for us not to worry about such things but to concentrate on Him.
To seek his Kingdom, to live a Kingdom life and everything else, that we need, will
be added.
As we go through spring this year let us make a point of stopping and taking in
the scale and sheer beauty of the world around us, recognise the hand of God and
remember that this creator God, loves each one of us unconditionally.
Stephen Tooke
Licenced Lay Minister
Benefice of Six Fen Churches

OUR SERVICES

Services at St Nicolas Church for April – June
9th April (Easter Sunday) Holy Communion 10.30am
23rd April Morning Prayer 10.30am
30th April United Benefice Service at Christchurch Community Centre 10.30am
14th May Holy Communion 10.30am
28th May Morning Prayer 10.30am
11th June Holy Communion 10.30am
25th June Morning Prayer 10.30am

Benefice Administrator - Christine Day 01354 688063
Church Wardens- Rosemary Hankins 01354 680585 & Bob Day 01354 688063

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