© Long Buckby URC 2018
News 1
Long Buckby United Reformed Church
Email the Webmaster
Last month I received a gift. I was given four days for in-service training; the content, the company and the
venue together worked to make it a real refreshment. The venue was originally entirely the training campus
for BT- still there is a forest of telephone poles, upon which engineers must train, the car park is during day
light hours about 1/3 full of Openreach vans, and throughout the entire campus there is good Wifi
connectivity… so we were never lost from mobile phones and internet contact.
It was as if we were up enjoying a Mountain-top experience, but with a stream of messengers constantly
carrying news and messages up from the valley.
One of the inspirational people we heard about was Dorothy Day, who lived by a simple belief. Dorothy
believed that the mission of the Church and therefore each Christian was to work to make the world a place
where it was easier to be good, to act humanely and with compassion.
Of course it’s the working out of how that shapes our lives, where the discussion begins…
Give me orders and I’ll question why, and need to be convinced: but let me tease out how to walk the way
of Christ, in the company of other sincere travellers, and I may get closer to living the life of Jesus today.
Here is a prayer you may find useful:
May we be the ones who hold doors open for others
who hold hands
who hold faces
who hold secrets for one another
who hold space for the pain and the brilliance
who hold the light and the salt
the complexity and the simplicity
the silence and the storm
the ones who hold our opinions loosely
and yet love ferociously.
May you find worthy companions on your journeys this summer.
Shalom, Salaam
Elizabeth
© Long Buckby URC 2018
News 1
Long Buckby United Reformed Church
Email the Webmaster
Last month I received a gift. I was given four days for in-service training; the
content, the company and the venue together worked to make it a real
refreshment. The venue was originally entirely the training campus for BT- still
there is a forest of telephone poles, upon which engineers must train, the car park
is during day light hours about 1/3 full of Openreach vans, and throughout the
entire campus there is good Wifi connectivity… so we were never lost from
mobile phones and internet contact.
It was as if we were up enjoying a Mountain-top experience, but with a stream of
messengers constantly carrying news and messages up from the valley.
One of the inspirational people we heard about was Dorothy Day, who lived by a
simple belief. Dorothy believed that the mission of the Church and therefore each
Christian was to work to make the world a place where it was easier to be good,
to act humanely and with compassion.
Of course it’s the working out of how that shapes our lives, where the discussion
begins…
Give me orders and I’ll question why, and need to be convinced: but let me tease
out how to walk the way of Christ, in the company of other sincere travellers, and
I may get closer to living the life of Jesus today.
Here is a prayer you may find useful:
May we be the ones who hold doors open for others
who hold hands
who hold faces
who hold secrets for one another
who hold space for the pain and the brilliance
who hold the light and the salt
the complexity and the simplicity
the silence and the storm
the ones who hold our opinions loosely
and yet love ferociously.
May you find worthy companions on your journeys this summer.
Shalom, Salaam
Elizabeth
