Thought for the week from the Rev David Jones (we 26th August 2012)

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Thought for the week from the Rev David Jones (we 26th August 2012)

‘Desperate Dan’ ‘Beryl the Peril’ and all other characters from ‘The Dandy’ begin a new lease of life as the much loved comic goes on line on its 75th birthday.

For all those years The Dandy’s been entertaining children and in the fifties its circulation was a massive two million copies. Although there have been several revamps readership has continued to decline and so it was announced this week that the Dandy will disappear from the newsstands in December of this year.

All of us have our own memories of what we enjoyed reading when we were children. There were comics like the Dandy and the Beano, and my favourite ‘The Victor’. Then there were the books of Enid Blyton like the ‘Famous Five’ and Adventure series which grasped the imagination of generations of children.

Time moves on, and putting childish ways behind us while never losing our childlike faith in God will always bring us closer to him.

Such faith receives gladly God’s love and forgiveness enabling us to a deeper relationship with him through prayer and worship. It means that when faith is tested as often it is we hold on to God’s promise that evil in all its forms will come under his judgement.

The Bible says that what we see now is like a dim image in a mirror and that one day faith’s reward is that all things will be made known to us. Jesus said that within his Kingdom are those who enter like little children who with a simple trusting faith leave childish ways behind and with a childlike confidence enter into the fullness of God’s love and salvation.

Rev. David Jones

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