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Faith like a mustard seed

Not that its really a laughing matter, but apparently last week the wife and the mistress of one of those trapped Chilean miners awaiting rescue met each other this week at a vigil for the men. Mrs. Yonni Barrios says she heard the other woman calling her husband's name as families gathered to pray for the workers. I suspect that miner may be rather glad he is in the hole at the moment where his wife can’t get at him… And there are perhaps some of the disciples of Jesus who thought they too may like to be in a hole in the ground when Jesus started speaking to them about faith, and the need to have more of it ! Faith is one of those incredible things which we talk about a lot and rarely have a huge opportunity to test – and it is at times of testing that we often find how strong a faith actually is – there are many stories of people who, in the darkest of times have turned to God and found strength… Sadly there are other stories of people who found their faith wasn’t enough through

Harvest 2010

Last week you may have heard on the news that the world’s largest wind farm opened off the Kent Coast – The campaign group Friends of the Earth, who are huge supporters of the need for more wind farms, were quoted on the news as saying that the British record on renewable energy was ‘dismal’. Actually they did say a little more than that but the quote the news picked up was the negative comment and sadly that is so often the case – and in many ways all of us are almost tuned in to look at negatives rather than positives – it is perhaps a sad thing but how many of us look for the catch in every prize we are offered; and how many of us wonder what will go wrong when things seem to be going so well and so on… Perhaps instead of looking for negatives and disadvantages, we should instead be looking at advantages and gifts and how we can use those things to make life better, both for ourselves and for everyone around us. At harvest time we celebrate God’s goodness – it is a time of thanksgiv