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In her last Christmas address last year, Elizabeth again pointed to Christ when she you more information, include:
said “Jesus whose teachings have been handed down from generation to
generation, and have been the bedrock of my faith. His Birth marked a new Pilates Kathy Ashdown 07967655159
beginning. As the carol says ‘The hopes and fears of all the years are met in the Yoga Frances White 07974391349
tonight.’” The Queen was truly remarkable, and the traits that she is most often
prayed for are the same traits consistent with the christian faith as taught in the Short Mat Bowls Peter Talbot 01929472483
Bible.
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I noted earlier that the Queen had been one of the few constants in my life and it
saddens me deeply that she is no longer here with us. However, a greater Community Talks Mike Menzies 01929471263
personal constant that I share in common with the Queen is my own faith. I Arts Reach Deborah Hepburn 07788100273
became a Christian as a child when I first understood the gospel message that
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gift for those who trust Him for it. As much as possible in my own life, I seek to echo Let’s Lunch Jenny Beedle 01929471002
the Queen’s sentiments regarding the importance of Jesus Christ and my own
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It is my hope that this national time of mourning will affect people in at least one
of two ways. Firstly, for those who have no faith, it is my prayer that this will be a We look forward to seeing you in the Village Hall
reminder of the temporary and transient nature of life on this earth. The writer of
Ecclesiastes said ‘man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the Allan Smith
streets’ (Ecclesiates 12:5). The end will inevitably come for us all one day, and just
as the Queen did, my prayer for each of us reading this is that we would consider
what awaits us beyond this life. Secondly, it is my hope that in this time of ERICA TRUST LAND UPDATE AUTUMN 2022
mourning, the comfort of Christ that is found in the Scriptures (eg 2 Corinthians 1:3-
4) would be tangible to those who seek it.
It has been wonderfully gratifying to have had so many reports of the wildlife
John Williams expanding over or colonising the restored habitats of our landholding and to
hear of those enjoying the recovering landscape.

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