Westgate 

Cowbridge 

Vale of Glamorgan 

CF717AE 

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT AND FEEDBACK

 "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.   Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.   Darkness cannot drive out darkness:  only light can do that.   Hate cannot drive out hate:  only love can do that."

[Martin Luther King]

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an extract from our Minister's Ramblings Harvest/Autumn 2011 "Freesheet" 

" Every single day of our lives there will be things that make us smile, laugh out loud or hug somebody and those that make us want to shout, stamp our feet or weep;  such is life and it is when that balance is unstable over a period of time that we see people becoming depressed or dissatisfied, lonely and afraid.   As Christians we are often concerned or even ashamed of the way in which we handle those 'glass half-empty' feelings of negativity and emptiness;  we know that we have somewhere to take those feelings, someone with whom to share them and yet we are occasionally overtaken by negative sensations and emotions.

Imagine then having no sense of there being the support, forgiveness and love that we have from our Heavenly Father - of feeling that the only way to cope is on our own strength and possibly that of our friends.   There is no shame in a Christian feeling helpless or hopeless;  we have a God who understands only too well that we sometimes fall short of