I came across this wonderful quote from Hans Kung, a famous thinker and theologian. It made me pause and think and I offer it for all the changes and chances of life during these days.
“To stay the same when everything else around you is changing is not to stay the same”
It reminded me of the pastorals where Paul writes to Timothy “but you keep your head in all situations”
Keeping going, (the grace of perseverance), or standing firm, (the grace of steadfastness) or even being still and knowing ( the grace of stillness ) might mean we are perceived as not changing, when all around us is, but the Lord who works in hidden gracious ways might indeed be transforming us and changing us from one degree of glory to another – to quote from the apostle Paul again.
I thank God for remarkable Christian servants both living and departed who remind us of these things in our stressed world of constant change.
The Revd Canon Mark Brown
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