March2010 Edition - Hatfield Heath Village Magazine
March2010 Edition - Hatfield Heath Village Magazine
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MINISTERS<br />
LETTER<br />
As you read this magazine the churches will be preparing<br />
for Easter through bible study, prayer and worship. Some<br />
of us will have made a commitment to endure some form<br />
of testing by doing without something during this period<br />
of reflection. Has your commitment to giving something<br />
up for Lent lasted as long as your New Year’s<br />
resolution? Don’t we make quite a fuss about giving<br />
something up during these few weeks as we journey to<br />
Easter? Sometimes it can be so difficult to give things up<br />
with the stresses of life and the many temptations around<br />
us to keep going especially when it comes to eating that<br />
last piece of chocolate cake at the end of a bad day.<br />
A few years ago I used to support a charity by raising<br />
funds through sponsorship for going without food for<br />
twenty-four hours. Because it was recommended to start<br />
at 7:00pm on Friday and finish at 7:00pm on Saturday I<br />
didn’t find it too hard to do as after four hours I was<br />
asleep for about the next eight. The stress didn’t really<br />
start until it was about tea-time on Saturday when it was<br />
time to feed the dog and that tin of chunky meat in<br />
delicious gravy was very tempting!<br />
Whatever my motives for going without food were I had<br />
a sense of achievement of having raised funds to help<br />
someone else have a better life. If you have given<br />
something up for Lent this year, what is your motive?<br />
Simply not eating chocolate to lose weight isn’t what<br />
Lent is about. Sometimes the things that tempt or test us<br />
are how we learn about ourselves and what we are<br />
actually capable of doing. It was during this time in his<br />
life that Jesus learnt about himself and the work he was<br />
to do.<br />
Over the last few months many people have been forced<br />
to give up things without making the choice for<br />
themselves. Jobs, homes and even money that they have<br />
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