For some reason I am reminded of the image of posts and wires as I try to plan our Advent activities for this year...

If you have a fence, or even for that matter a rail, you need to have one more post that you have wires/rails.  Having looked at people's availablility to particpate in Advent reflections, it emerges that we will have four 'posts' (the four Sundays) and three 'wires' (the intervening weeks). Rather than the usual four mid-week 'pause points' or 'reflections' we will have three, or actually, two lots of three, one day time and one evening.  That feels slightly strange, I am so used to having four, but it also feels like an opoportunity to be grasped.

It happens that both the Christian Aid material I have been considering for Advent reflections and the Roots recources major on the Isaiah readings for Advent, which is also a refreshlingly different slant.

The image of a fence is maybe not entirely helpful - as it can be seen as excluding, but it works for me in making sense of the three-and-four-ness of what I am planning!