Bible Verse for 2009

Every year I like to have a Bible verse for that particular year - last year (2008) one of my ladies from church chose a verse for me but this year I have asked Valerie at Simply4God and she very kindly chose the following verse..

Isaiah 40:31
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.

Today my job titled has changed to 'Community Chaplain for Barking Riverside' as I, alongside Revd David Pearson (Church of England) and Pastor Brian Endacott (Methodist) continue to work together towards establishing a new worship centre within the first Barking Riverside Neighbourhood Complex, which opens later this year.

Happy New Year

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year

'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'

And he replied, 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God

That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'

So I went forth and finding the Hand of God

Trod gladly into the night

He led me towards the hills

And the breaking of day in the lone east.

So heart be still!

What need our human life to know

If God hath comprehension?

In all the dizzy strife of things

Both high and low,

God hideth his intention."

"This poem was written in 1908 by Minnie Louise Haskins, an American lecturer at the London School of Economics, who wrote as a hobby. It was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the late Queen Mother, who showed it to her husband King George VI. He included it in his famous Christmas message broadcast in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War. After the King's death the Queen Mother had it engraved on bronze plaques on the entrance to the King George VI Memorial Chapel,Windsor, where both are now interred. It was also read at the funeral service of the Queen Mother.

Wishing you a Happy New Year