Today’s
#AdventWord is #Ancestor
Today
we brought the Christmas tree into the Minster where I serve. It is green now,
but it will die. But for now, it stands in that space. It is a space in which
there is much older wood, pews and a pulpit carved in the 1930s, and some wood
going back centuries. The old will be visible for much longer than the new. And
the same is true with us. The present congregation is but the latest ring of
growth in a tree planted on a small rise overlooking the mouth of the River
Wear in AD930. A continuous worshipping community, though one disrupted many
times over the intervening years. And when we sing on this patch of earth, we
join in communion with the great cloud of witnesses who have gone before us
into God’s nearer presence.
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