September marks the start of the new school year. I can still remember my first day at
school - I cried. I was scared, everything seemed so big and I didn’t know what was going
to happen. What did happen is that I developed a life long passion for learning.
Although school is different these days some things never change, including starting a
new school in a uniform two sizes too big because as Mum says: “You’ll grow into it.”
There are lots of new starts in life, new school, new job, new relationships. Whilst school
starts in September the church year begins with Advent and of course January 1st is the
New Year when resolutions are made but few last. When we accept Jesus Christ into our
lives it is a new beginning and we can start each day afresh. As Paul wrote to the church
at Corinth:
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation, the old has passed away the
new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Or as Thomas Chisholm wrote:
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand has provided
Great is thy faithfulness Lord unto me.

May this month bring you a renewed sense of the closeness and love of Christ.

God Bless
Karen