September 2025 Message from Rev. Gavin Carpenter

September 2025 Message from Rev. Gavin Carpenter

Dear Friends

It’s September, autumn and the beginning of a new academic year. How are you feeling? For some, it means the end of a long summer break and the daunting prospect of hard study that will lead toward exams. For others we don’t have the pressure of the academic year, instead we might simply be pleased to be back in routine.

Whatever you face in these coming weeks and months, be assured that God is with you. It’s good to be consciously aware of God with us, but even when we fail to be aware of God, he remains a faithful presence to us. It’s likely that the coming days and weeks will get busy, but you can always return to your rock, the one who is always there, God.

Jesus took time to be in his father’s presence and the Psalmist before him wrote.

1 Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.
2 Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I shall never be shaken.

(Psalm 62:1-2)

God is always there, unseen but present, a place of rest for us to return to.

God bless,

Gavin