May 8

I heard someone say recently, that change is the only certainty in today’s world. I believe that there are other certainties, but it’s a point worth making. Few of us like change; it makes us insecure. We prefer the known, the familiar, and for many, it’s hard to make sense of the many different changes that we are living through at present. As the pressures of coping increase, it becomes difficult to see beyond the immediacy of current events.

For the followers of Jesus in the days after the first Easter, life was like that. Their hopes and dreams had been dashed on a cross at Calvary, and even when the risen Lord appeared to them three days later, bringing fresh hope and joy, they were so preoccupied, that they failed to recognise him! Those in the garden, on the beach and on the road to Emmaus took some convincing before the reality of all that Jesus had said about himself finally dawned.

For those of us walking with Jesus in this generation, our experience is pretty much the same. Sometimes his presence helps make sense of the changes with which we are faced, sometimes, even with him it’s hard to understand their purpose….but his presence is the essential thing to hold on to.

My testimony and the testimonies of countless individuals whom it has been my privilege to accompany on their journey of faith, is that with him, things makes sense, eventually. Without him, they never will!

By Revd Canon Kevin Partington, Team Rector of Dewsbury

on behalf of Churches Together in Dewsbury.

Churches		Together	in	Dewsbury

May 8	I heard someone say recently, that change is the only certainty in today’s world. I believe that there are other certainties, but it’s a point worth making. Few of us like change; it makes us insecure. We prefer the known, the familiar, and for many, it’s hard to make sense of the many different changes that we are living through at present. As the pressures of coping increase, it becomes difficult to see beyond the immediacy of current events. For the followers of Jesus in the days after the first Easter, life was like that. Their hopes and dreams had been dashed on a cross at Calvary, and even when the risen Lord appeared to them three days later, bringing fresh hope and joy, they were so preoccupied, that they failed to recognise him! Those in the garden, on the beach and on the road to Emmaus took some convincing before the reality of all that Jesus had said about himself finally dawned. For those of us walking with Jesus in this generation, our experience is pretty much the same. Sometimes his presence helps make sense of the changes with which we are faced, sometimes, even with him it’s hard to understand their purpose….but his presence is the essential thing to hold on to. My testimony and the testimonies of countless individuals whom it has been my privilege to accompany on their journey of faith, is that with him, things makes sense, eventually. Without him, they never will! *By Revd Canon Kevin Partington, Team Rector of Dewsbury* on behalf of Churches Together in Dewsbury.