tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post1174408521543446436..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: Looking up, without baggageBishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-62529179565075361512008-01-15T23:00:00.000+00:002008-01-15T23:00:00.000+00:00Thanks, Hazel. I really felt God was among us in H...Thanks, Hazel. I really felt God was among us in HS on Sunday. As I pray around the future of the parish, I feel increasingly that God will bring fruit from the faith and love you can feel so clearly in the Church. I know there are challenges and risks, but I'm sure he will bless you richly as people are able to let him. Your strategy for working with a new vicar strikes me as spot on!<BR/><BR/>Love and prayers<BR/><BR/>as ever<BR/><BR/>+AlanBishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-10233070684531045932008-01-15T21:39:00.000+00:002008-01-15T21:39:00.000+00:00Sunday was very special. It was great to have you ...Sunday was very special. It was great to have you worshipping with us at the Church of the Holy Spirit. Thank you so much.<BR/>I am certainly looking forward to looking up from the lowest place on earth when I visit the Jordan Valley in march. <BR/>Thank you for putting the Confederate Soldier's prayer on your blog. It has been 'food for thought'. <BR/>Last year God gave me a special gift of weakness and infirmity. It is not easy as a GP to be ill; 'Doctor's can't be ill!'people say. But the soldier's prayer is true:I was given weakness to feel the need for God and appreciate the church family as a caring community. <BR/>God has richly blessed me through my illness. I discovered how special it is to be appreciated and how important it is to show appreciation. <BR/>It is not easy to 'lose' the viar when you are having chemotherapy; the love and support was so important.<BR/>My prayer is that we will be able to love and support our new vicar, encouraging the vicar's strengths but supporting and not criticising weaknesses. At the end of your allegory in the evening the vicar was smiling - that's my prayer.Hazel Butlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06768926042762617134noreply@blogger.com