Thought for the month 

 

Just in case there are any Dallington CE Primary School’s Christmas elves reading this.  The Chapel would like to say a very big ‘thank you’ for the present you left for us, beautifully wrapped up.  We at the Chapel would like to wish you all A Very Happy, Healthy 2025 and we pray that Jesus will bless you greatly this year. 

 

2024 Flew by and we are already into 2025!  I wonder if this year will be as eventful as last? 

 

Our Christian Library is expanding fast and we are thrilled to see so many books being borrowed and of course read. 

 

We are continuing to live stream our Services every Sunday evening and it is lovely to see people who are not feeling well or don’t like driving in the dark and dreary nights join us just the same only on line instead of in person. 

 

We have some very knowledgeable and charismatic preachers lined up for the coming weeks and I pray that some of you readers of this will come and join us either online or in person.  You can be assured of a very warm welcome and fellowship and home-made cake after the Service. 

 

As I prepared the Preaching Plan for January, February and March I realized how late Easter is this year compared to 2024.  Do you know why that is?  I googled it and the simple definition of Easter is that it is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox.  If the full Moon falls on a Sunday, then Easter is the next Sunday. 

 

It is encouraging to realise that by the time we celebrate the resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour we will be back on Summertime and the evenings will be lighter and we will be out in our gardens planting our vegetables and flowers.  What a lovely thought! 

 

The birds will be busy either making nests or if the weather is kind sitting on eggs and bringing new life into our countryside, our trees will have lovely tender green leaves of varying shades, lambs will be jumping and playing and farmers will be silaging, cutting spring corn and turning the animals out after their long winter indoors.  What a wonderful time of the year.