Newsletter
February 2006
News and Views
Committee
elections
Included in this mailing is a separate sheet outlining the
CRC Committee posts and their duties, and a nomination form. All members
of the present committee are willing to stand for re-election and will need to
be nominated and seconded by people from within the membership. However, if you, or anyone you know of, is
interested in any of these posts please contact myself, or a member of the
committee.
One post has been vacant for some time and there is a
particular need for a Newsletter Editor so........if you have the skills don't
be shy in coming forward. It would be
particularly useful to reinstate this as a committee post and have the extra
person on the committee. Is there anyone
out there wiling to do this essential task? Speak to us
please!
Alison
Prayer focus: walking into a crowded dining room
An experienced CRC member shared that they had difficulty
going into hostel meals at the larger events, not knowing who to sit next
to, as everyone seemed to be with their friends. To my surprise, everyone else in the room
said they felt the same! One person even
declined hostel meals for that reason, and all were well-seasoned CRC members.
Lord, we are sorry for not realising how unsure others
might feel. Sorry that our own style and
approach may have become a barrier to others, unintentionally maybe. But Lord, you know how much we feel
that we ourselves need time with those we know, as we feel deprived of
this ourselves. Please break into our thinking and guide us when to
be aware of someone else. Please help us
to be willing to relinquish our comfort, or self-consciousness, in order to
connect with that other person.
Please help those for whom it affects their enjoyment of the occasion. Please help them to wait on You and
‘hold on’ for a better moment.
Please help us feel one with them as we bear one another’s burdens. Thank you that you have told us to show greater
honour to the hurting parts. Thank you
that you willingly took on every human sorrow and weakness for us, and suffered
in our place. We need you desperately,
so none can boast. Thank you that your
yoke is easy and your burden is light - please nudge us when we should include
someone. So often we benefit in the end
- your grace and blessings are so abundant.
And Lord, if this anguish is something we personally experience, please help us
to say “yes” to opportunities that help build community and connect
with others. Thank you that you
continually bring us out from becoming self-sufficient. Please help us to be willing to be
vulnerable, in order to be accessible. ‘I
will all the more gladly boast in my weakness, that when I am weak, then I am
strong ‘(2 Cor. v 10). Please remind
us that if we are feeling sensitive, then others probably are too, and lead
them across our path.
We thank you for one another. Please help us to provide lovingly-created
structure and helpful engaging activities on events to help involve everyone in
their uniqueness and creativity. As we
approach our 25th anniversary celebrations, please refresh us in love and in
inclusively seeing everyone as you do, across age, culture, race, and
difference from ourselves. Thank you
that we will all be together sharing around your throne at the end. Thank you Lord you have included me.
In Jesus’ Name. Amen
Thought for the walk
I have enjoyed holidays walking and cycling in the Lake
District or
Jesus left all the wonder of being one with his Father in
heaven to come and live a tough life here on earth, and face a sacrificial
death, choosing this way because he loves us - me!
It is still a wrench to leave places I love, and which seem
to me to be my natural environment, but I do live in a pleasant place and it is
wonderful to know that the Lord is with me where ever I am.
Edith
Howes
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