Please join to celebrate and give thanks
at the Mortimer, MWE & Padworth
Parish Eucharist
on Sunday 4th October 2020 at 10.00 am
at St John’s Church, Mortimer,
& online at ZOOM https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6931233940
If you have
zoom difficulties please contact the tech. team at 01189333136
Vineyards with a View of Auvers - Vincent van Gogh
Prayer Thought: Every
one of us has a part of God’s vineyard set before us - a part of the Kingdom of
God to tend: our families, our communities, our work, our church, our
environment are all parts of God’s vineyard. God does not exclude anyone from
service in the vineyard, but we may exclude ourselves by walking away or
failing to work conscientiously in that part of the vineyard we have been given
to tend.
In this Sunday’s parable we are meant to see ourselves as the
tenants provided by God with everything we need to make the vineyard bear
fruit. As God calls us to be good stewards of his vineyard so he also gives us
the freedom to run it as we choose, but we need to remember it is still God’s
and not ours. If we are to be good stewards we need to be sensitive to what God
asks of us and be ready to seek his guidance and help. This is what prayer is
about - coming to know the ‘mind of God’ about our lives.
We are all called by God to produce good fruit in that part of
the vineyard in which we have been placed. In this time of pandemic what fruits
will we produce for the Lord and how will we do that? How will we use the gifts
he has given us to tend and help those in greatest need?
