Thought for the week from the Rev David Jones (we 15th July 2012)

It was a pleasure to be at the schools and choral concerts, events organised to mark the end of live entertainment at Theatre Elli.

 

What tremendous talent we have in our community! For over seventy years this impressive building has been the hub of film and live entertainment in our community. Fondly remembered for Saturday morning film shows of our childhoods to the teenage years when many a romance began by meeting up outside the ‘Odeon’, as it was then known.

I remember well one of my less generous friends – the girl he’d had a crush on bought a ticket for the circle and he promptly bought one for the stalls. Needless to say it was not the romance of the years! Following the ‘buy a brick’ campaign of the seventies Theatre Elli was bought for the community and since then its contribution as a venue for the dramatic and musical talents of our town has been immeasurable.

I suppose we can all be allowed to have a little nostalgia at times. It’s an emotion that has to do with fondness and memories of the past. It can, however, be a negative one if that’s all it is. There’s a tendency in us all to embrace the status quo because that’s where we feel the most secure.

Life, however, is meant to be lived to the full and in trusting and believing that God is with us we can venture confidently into the future, follow our dreams grasping each new opportunity that comes our way.

In the words of the great Missionary William Carey ‘Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God’.

Rev. David Jones

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