Creeping Fear

Earlier this week I found myself feeling more and more anxious. Those of us tuned into anxiety or have a history with being motivated or manipulated by fear can and should notice anxiety or fear creeping in. The trigger for me was the complex and deadly situation unfolding in Victoria and bleeding out into surrounding states, with the all to real possibility of that transmission creeping northward. One consolation was that at least I would know what to do if we had a second phase. Nevertheless, even with that small consolation I noticed, thank you Jesus, that fear was creeping in. Where there is fear love goes. So I found myself looking at every number plate and passing judgement if they were the wrong flavour. Instead of ‘we are all in this together’ it was becoming ‘us and them’. The ‘them’ were for me our modern day lepers! We all know the best thing to do with lepers – identify them as ‘unclean’ , quarantine, isolation, and rejection. Continue reading “Creeping Fear”

CCUC weekly Pastoral Letter 9th May 2020

THANK  YOU I just wanted to start this weeks letter by expressing our gratitude to you for your generosity.
Thank you for blessing our little part of the body of Christ through your giving. 
Thank you
for making sure your offering made its way to the bank.
Thank you for the checks that have been mailed. 
Thank you
for the direct deposits, for changing the way you give so we can continue to function as a church. 
Thank you
for your gifts that came via our online giving capacity. 
Thank you
to our Presbytery, that in collaboration with the Synod is making sure we can pay our bills.

Reminds me a little of the early church as it is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles Acts 4:32 “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had … there were no needy persons among them”. Continue reading “CCUC weekly Pastoral Letter 9th May 2020”