It's the Holidays!
- Margaret Blake
- 2 days ago
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This week is the start of the school summer holidays: a time of rest for teachers, a change of routine for families and a juggle for working parents.
At 6pm on Sunday we had our first ‘Holiday Evensong’ of the summer. The reading from Mark 6 described the apostles gathering around Jesus after a very busy time and telling him all they had been doing and teaching. They had been coming and going, and they had no time even to eat. I think this is a feeling we can all recognise – being too busy.
Jesus’ response to his followers was: ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ (Mark 6: 31) Jesus and the apostles then went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
Jesus invites all of us to find quiet time and quiet places to be alone with him – for restoration and renewal – ready to return to all we are called to once the holidays are over.
Our prayer this week is two verses from the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind:
O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
the silence of eternity,
interpreted by love!
Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease;
take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of Thy peace.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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