I have to write this before I go off on my travels, printing deadlines as you know, but on Thursday this week at 20.00 hours, I will be on a plane to South Africa.

I promise a full report on my return!

It amazes me this world we live in, how we can go half way across the world in 12 hours, text a message back to our families to say we have arrived, which takes seconds, and telephone and speak to friends in America, Australia and New Zealand say, and feel they are in the next room.

But and it is a reasonably big but, some of the wonderful technology is taking its toll on the earth. Some say it is too late, others that we mustn't give up, and using less fuel, recycling waste and so on must be encouraged and hopefully we will restore some of the natural balance which has been upset by our continued misuse of the gifts God has given to his creation.

The earth does seem to go in cycles and creatures have come and gone, over vast periods of time, and in these cycles humans have barely been on the earth at all in comparative terms, so is this time worse because of the folly of the human race?
I wonder what you feel about it?

I will finish with an old Celtic blessing; May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. Amen.


Maggie Bridgett

With Serena Gaylard's departure we need someone to take over her monthly distribution of the village news to Thursley Road from Domford down to Scott and two houses down Ash Lane.

This is not a difficult task, collecting the magazines after printing each month from the church and distributing them to the names on the list.

Please contact (Sarah Goodship, Dorothy Ede or Diana Balchin)