This week we looked back to the story of Jesus' Ascension in Luke 24 and asked where Jesus is for us. For his contemporaries, Jesus had returned "up there" to God and the cloud in the story is a symbol of God's presence as it is in the story of the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. For us, as a number of you said, Jesus is with us in the midst of our daily lives, and in those whom we meet in the course of our day. The BBC mini-series "The Passion" broadcast a few years ago very powerfully and effectively ended with Jesus walking away from the disciples and just disappearing into the crowd ... which is where he is today.
This Sunday also marked the end of this year's Christian Aid Week. Here too is where we meet Jesus today and thanks to Pauline's prayer activities we were able to actively engage in learning about and praying for the work of Christian Aid throughout the world.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the morning.
Peter King
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