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from rev. sophie
As we’ve been preparing to say farewell to Tara this week, we’ve also begun to look towards the process of replacing her.
Which leads me to say, of course, that Tara is irreplaceable! There is much that we have enjoyed about having Tara as our parish secretary.
When I think of the work Tara has done for us over the past four years, what stays in my mind is her calm and single-minded focus, her sense of what is right, her ability to sift through a myriad of materials and find what is needed and her gut instinct about how to navigate a wide range of interesting requests that come through the parish office each day. I have valued her eye for design and detail when it comes to creating visuals for bill boards and other such publicity. We wish Tara well as she embarks on the next stage of her employment journey.
We are in a time of transition with regards a parish secretary, but we are also in a time of transition in our spiritual lives. Advent is a time of transition, it’s about being on the road and preparing for the coming of the One who will make us whole. We look forward eagerly to his coming whilst hearing biblical stories about the ways God has been faithful in the past and promises to be faithful in the future.
We are also in a state of transition in our civic lives as the world tries to live with Covid in ways that keep us all as safe as possible. We don’t really know how it will develop and that unknowing is hard and tiring. We are all completely over having our plans thwarted or having to isolate when we get a scratch in our throats! It’s tedious, but it’s the cost of re-emerging from lockdown and the cost of loving one another.
Let us care for one another tenderly through these times of transition, never forgetting that God holds us all with love and fierce parental care.
Love and blessings
Sophie
Which leads me to say, of course, that Tara is irreplaceable! There is much that we have enjoyed about having Tara as our parish secretary.
When I think of the work Tara has done for us over the past four years, what stays in my mind is her calm and single-minded focus, her sense of what is right, her ability to sift through a myriad of materials and find what is needed and her gut instinct about how to navigate a wide range of interesting requests that come through the parish office each day. I have valued her eye for design and detail when it comes to creating visuals for bill boards and other such publicity. We wish Tara well as she embarks on the next stage of her employment journey.
We are in a time of transition with regards a parish secretary, but we are also in a time of transition in our spiritual lives. Advent is a time of transition, it’s about being on the road and preparing for the coming of the One who will make us whole. We look forward eagerly to his coming whilst hearing biblical stories about the ways God has been faithful in the past and promises to be faithful in the future.
We are also in a state of transition in our civic lives as the world tries to live with Covid in ways that keep us all as safe as possible. We don’t really know how it will develop and that unknowing is hard and tiring. We are all completely over having our plans thwarted or having to isolate when we get a scratch in our throats! It’s tedious, but it’s the cost of re-emerging from lockdown and the cost of loving one another.
Let us care for one another tenderly through these times of transition, never forgetting that God holds us all with love and fierce parental care.
Love and blessings
Sophie
