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should feel small and insignificant, for we have not been on our planet long, and
we could easily disappear from it, just like the dinosaurs before us.
That’s enough, hopefully, to make us realise that we should be doing our bit to
make sure humans can stay a bit longer, by looking after our world and sharing
our resources more fairly.
For Christians, it also makes us think about eternity and the God who is eternal. We
believe that God was not only there before all life on earth, but before life itself.
God isn’t limited to one time or place, God is past, present, and future. God saw
the creatures we only know as fossils when they were crawling and swimming,
when they lived and died.
I find it very reassuring that God is magnificent and astonishing and present in our
world and the rest of the universe, there before the beginning, and will be there
after the end.
We often sing this song at Messy Church and Family Service -
‘Our God is a great big God…he’s higher than a skyscraper and deeper than the
deepest sea, he’s wider than the universe and beyond my wildest dreams, and
he’s known me and he’s loved me since before the world began, how wonderful
to be a part of God’s amazing plan’

‘Our God is a great big God, and he holds us in his hand.’ That’s the most
reassuring thing of all.
With blessings

Sandra

PARISH AND BENEFICE NEWS

THANK YOU’S

Affpuddle fete
I’m sure all those who came to the Affpuddle Fete had a lovely time, thank you
for supporting either as an organiser, helper or customer! Thank you very much to Saturday 28th October
Chips for allowing us to use her beautiful garden again. Bere Regis - Those Bygone Days Photographic Exhibition 10.00am-6.00pm

Village Hall, North Street
Gates
You may have noticed the recently painted gates coming into the west side of
the churchyard in Bere Regis. Thank you very much to David Gray and Jackie

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