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DATES FOR BISHOP’S LETTER

YOUR DIARY Dynamo Light

Perhaps it was growing up in the power-cuts of the early seventies, but I tend to
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collect lamps and torches of all kinds - and am always ready to be persuaded of
the need to buy another. The least satisfactory I’ve ever owned, however, was
Key: FG-Floral Group, AL-Autumn Leaves, TA– Twinning, WI-Women’s the dynamo light fitted to my bicycle as a boy. The basic problem was that this
Institute, PiP-Pop in Place, GC-Gardening Club depended on you to keep pedalling – so along a flat road, the light would shine
nicely, but grew dimmer climbing a hill and became a sad glow by the time you
reached the top. Its crucial flaw, however, became evident as soon as you had
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to stop at a junction. Then, at the very point when you most needed to be seen
by other road users, the light would desert you.
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For those serving the local church, it can be all too easy to think that, if we just
25th PiP Summer Show 6.00pm pedal a bit harder, the light will shine a bit brighter. The trouble is that, when the
road gets rough and steep, or a crossroads is reached, our energies and hope
can fade, like the beam of the dynamo.
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John’s Gospel reassures us that the light of life is generated by God’s work, not
27th PiP Summer Show 2.00pm ours – and powered by his glory. Glory is our one inexhaustible energy supply: an
eternal current that anyone must connect to if they really want to live. It shines
July from the relationship between Jesus and his heavenly father, empowered by the
Holy Spirit. This divine dynamo, we learn, charges most powerfully at the points
7th Communibus - Portland Bill where human resources give out - when the wine runs dry at the wedding, or the
well is deep and you don’t have a bucket. And where this glory shines most
brightly, we find, is the cross of Christ, that fatal junction where all else turns to
7th FG: Irene Hickson: Chelsea Gold
darkness.
8th AL: A speaker from Natural England None of us is especially luminous on our own: we are the light of the world only
with Christ shining through us. May he renew our strength and our hope as we turn
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Bishop Andrew
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