In amongst the oh, so holy, and the 'candles and baubles' as we called them as children, was one from my treasurer and his wife which said...

"Just as the RICH TEA BISCUIT lives in HARMONY with the LUXURY CHOCOLATE FINGER, so we should all live in HARMONY together in the great Assorted Biscuit Tin that we call LIFE." (c) Edward Monkton 2006

I liked that!

I also liked the moment when during our service today I asked people to share any moments they thought were signs of the Kingdom or how Gospel had been shared this year when one person spoke of John Sentamu's symbolic chopping up of his dog collar live on the Andrew Mar show as a sign of solidarity with his birth nation and how someone else shared how they'd put a poem form our church magazine on a noticeboard ot work that other colleagues had found helpful. 

We had an almost full house this afternoon, and at the end of the service I got them to join hands and pray for each other as the year ends (it was our last 'normal' service of the year) which was actually quite moving as some of them have had a very tough 2007.

I hope they left encouraged, and that will continue to grow in faith and grace in 2008 and see more and more how we too can be signs of the Kingdom.