WORD OF THE WEEK
DO you have a store loyalty card? Are you like me and have half a dozen, and then stand there at the checkout looking madly through your purse to find the one that is relevant to that store? Sound familiar?
One of my loyalty cards, which shall be nameless, offered me a free bunch of daffodils next time I shopped with them.
I do try to make a point of taking the store up on its offer if I happen to be there when the offer is relevant. So three or four days ago I marched home with my free bunch of daffodils – tight buds which didn’t look as if they would open any time soon.
It has been absolutely wonderful to come downstairs every morning and see how these daffodils are opening – more and more each day.
That got me thinking and looking in the garden and round and about and yes, even though it is only just February, there are myriad buds on plants and bulbs beginning to come through.
We are able to connect with God through nature by seeing its beauty, and how things change day by day.
Psalm 65 tells us “God takes care of the earth making it rich and fertile”.
Let’s look around with fresh eyes and give great thanks to God for the wonders of his world,
Ashbourne U3A
ON Friday, February 5, between 60 and 70 members of Ashbourne U3A listened to a very interesting Zoom presentation by Paul Blakey OBE, from Halifax, concerning the organisation, Street Angels, which he founded around 15 years ago.
In 2005, following the controversial liberalisation of the licensing laws that year, several thousand mainly young people took to visiting the cenhe