Dec: Thoughts from Huw

‘….our God contracted to a span, incomprehensibly made man’.

Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Dear Friends,

Writing this letter to you there are only 40 days left to Christmas. But there's still plenty of time to do everything that you traditionally do. By the time you read this, there'll be fewer little windows to open on your Advent Calendar and less time for your Advent Candle to burn down but, in the inimitable words of the late Clive Dunn from Dad’s Army : ‘Don’t Panic!’

Of course, God has much more time to prepare – he’d been planning Christmas from the foundation of the world and when the time was right, his messengers announced to humble shepherds and to wealthy Eastern wise men that the time had come. All the planning, all the preparations, all the risk to make his deepest thoughts of Love become a Word – the Logos had become a reality- and they named him Jesus. The most beautiful and costly Love Song ever sung. It’s almost beyond our comprehension – isn’t that what Charles Wesley was intimating when in one of his most wonderful hymns we have:

`Let earth and heaven combine.` (Singing the Faith 208)

At Wesley there are services in Church to celebrate the coming of Christ into the world. On Sunday the 4th December at 5pm we will have our Christingle service. This year some of the Trust Chaplains from the Newcastle Hospitals will be joining me and leading the service. The following Sunday the 11th December at 10.30am we will have our Toy service and we will be joined by our uniformed organisations. On Sunday 18th December at 4pm we will sing our hearts out at our Carol service and then on Christmas Eve at 6pm we will prepare ourselves for Christmas Day with readings, prayers and carols.

I warmly invite you to come and join the celebrations.

Hilary, Lucy, Harrison and Elle join with me in wishing you a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New year.
God Bless
Huw