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Dear Friends
Welcome to the first update of the New Year.
Where does the time go?
As I sit writing this
Carole reminds me that it was this day thirteen years ago that we
moved into the Rectory, yet it seems like only yesterday. Suddenly
its 2010 and a decade has passed with hardly a ripple. It must be
an age thing!
There is also the
feeling that there is so much that you have seen before. The writer
of Ecclesiastes opined that:
“What has been will be again,
there is nothing new under the sun”.
Certainly in our
province we’ve seen the political process of the past ten years
lurch from crisis to crisis and once again the stability of the
Assembly is threatened not least by personal indiscretion. As far
as the latter goes I’m loathe to make any comment. On my computer
there is a ‘post it’ with words by a former Archbishop of
Canterbury, Robert Runcie, the ink is faded but I know the words by
heart,
“We
all live in moral glass houses”
The implication is that
none of us are in the position to throw stones.
Then there is Haiti,
another in a long list of tragedies that has claimed lives on a
staggering scale; we have seen it all before. Haiti was already the
poorest country in the western hemisphere and the earthquake that
levelled Port-au-Prince has not only brought immediate heartache but
will leave a legacy that will last for decades. |
