A chapter in my life drew to a close yesterday. Subject matter, well let’s see: 4 years, one marriage, one gorgeous boy, a little one on the way, a multitude of friends and many, many good memories. We said farewell to New Community Church Sidcup yesterday and the emotion was simply all consuming. The wife, little guy and myself had to stand before the loving people of New Community yesterday for the last time as a member of the leadership team there, a member of the loving community that has wholeheartedly embraced us for this chapter of our lives and which, in many ways, has played a significant role in the formation of who we are as a family. Not easy to say the least, far more meaningful and momentous than I presumed!
This is just a blog of immense gratitude, a blog to put my heart on display regarding our joy yesterday. So thank you people of New Community; thank you for love, for care, for grace, for rebuke, for joy, for time and for simply pushing us towards the person of Jesus Christ in a myriad of ways.
No time with a community of people is even near perfect and I am not even attempting to intimate that. But even imperfections within a community of God’s people, when shaped and steered by the sovereign purposes of our Great Yahweh, can bring enormous good (just listen to Joseph as he talks to his brothers at the end of the book of Genesis).
We have known much ‘good.’
You have forever touched our hearts and will remain dear to us until we will certainly meet again as that trumpet sounds (hopefully before but hey…).
Remain in the grip of His grace.
Simon
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