One of the best things about being a BermondseyVicar is our wonderful church school, St James, over 500 lovely children and an amazingly dedicated staff team.
It was good to welcome them all back today at our beginning of term/eve of Epiphany service in church this morning.
On Christmas Eve at the Co-Op across the road from the Vicarage there were the first sightings of Creme Eggs, but in the church calendar we're still in Christmas (just). We like to savour these things: the wonderful news of salvation, the light shining in the darkness, the day that God became a baby.
You don't want to rush those truths. You want to enjoy them.
So with the church still decorated for Christmas, and Epiphany very much in view, we sang 'We three kings', 'Come and join the celebration' and 'It was on a starry night... that a boy was born, king of all the world.'
Our prayer for our St James's children in 2016 is that they will know this Jesus as their friend, their Lord, and their saviour every day of their lives
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