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The Seasons Turn
September again, and is this month an ending or a beginning?
The Seasons' cycle may be unchanging, but each time around we ourselves will have changed -- we are older, wiser we hope, and can reach out for new opportunities. There is always something new to learn, but it should not just be facts. You can know a lot about something, without being active in it. For example, I know a bit about wrought iron, but I have never hammered a red-hot bar on a blacksmith's anvil. On the other hand, I know even more about bells, and could happily and successfully ring one in very many change-ringing Towers. That is where true satisfaction lies -- knowledge along with involvement. It's like that with the Christian life. Somewhere the Bible says that a head full of knowledge about spiritual things just makes you puffed up, and that the essence of the Christian life is relationships. First with God through the Lord Jesus Christ, and then with each other.
Long ages ago God said He was the only one:
"Know and believe me" said God (Is 43, 10)
Let this autumn be a new 'beginning' not a continuation of an old 'ending'. Cogges Parish | Other articles | Previous issue | 
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For me an end to our holiday down by Falmouth; for them there in the Fal
estuary the beginning of the oyster-dredging season with the 'working'
sailboats. The end of harvest for the farmers, but the season to sow for
a new crop. Last of the long School holiday, but a new term to come.