Myton Musings

Christmas will be different. Use it to teach children familiar truths! “What are you doing for Christmas?” Back in August, when the annual conversation-cum-negotiation around our families’ Christmas plans began, the assumption behind that question already seemed unwise. Scroll forward a few months and it’s now clear that it will be an unusual Christmas season, to say the least. We’re unlikely to be able to gather in large family groups or to invite friends to carol services. What will working from home do to our witness? How will social distancing affect seasonal cheer? Yes, December is going to be strange. But while the events of our Christmas celebration might be different, the events we celebrate are unchanged. The good news of Christ’s incarnation is unaffected and can go on being proclaimed and celebrated. Read more... of this article by Lizzy Laferton

Paul Valler of LICC writes, 'As the days get darker and shorter, people are finding the prospect of more restrictions for months to come even harder than when we first went into lockdown.' Read more... 

Television at times can give us powerful insights into human experiences.  Here are two recent examples. Christians are immune from neither.  God's people need to understand both, pray with insight and bring Christ's hope.  Freddie Flintoff - 'Living with Bulimia' on  BBC iplayer Miscarriage:Our Story on Channel 5  

A prayer for those flooded by too much information! In a world so wired and interconnected,  our anxious hearts are pummelled by an endless barrage of troubling news.  We are daily aware of more grief, O Lord,  than we can rightly consider,  of more suffering and scandal than we can respond to, of more  hostility, hatred, horror, and injustice  than we can engage with compassion. But you, O Jesus, are not disquieted  by such news of cruelty and terror and war.  You are neither anxious nor overwhelmed.  You carried the full weight of the suffering  of a broken world when you hung upon  the cross, and you carry it still.  When the cacophony of universal distress  unsettles us, remind us that we are but small  and finite creatures, never designed to carry  the vast abstractions of great burdens,  for our arms are too short and our strength is too small. Justice and mercy, healing and redemption, are your great ...

Sometimes in the heat of battle we need help to express our deepest longings to choose Christ and his ways. This liturgy from 'Every Moment Holy' gives us a voice.  

'See him face to face' Listen again to the new song that was included in yesterday's playlist.