Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 30th April 2023

Dear Friends,

Today I watched a fly.  She had landed on the window ledge and had touched a single silvery strand of spider web, long since missing its web. The fly was clearly bothered. She meticulously cleaned her front legs, rubbing them together like wringing hands, before turning around and accidentally touching the strand with her back legs.  The acrobatics of the cleaning ritual were hypnotising; she rubbed her long back legs together, she wiped them on the windowpane, she used the tops and the undersides of her wings to try to rid her legs of the stickiness.  But she didn’t move away from the source of the problem and all the time that she cleaned herself, she continued to brush up against the filament of web. 
What simple acts could we do in our lives that may disentangle us from an underlying issue that we’re otherwise putting far too much energy into resolving?

In Friendship
Theresa

On behalf of the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (David Hitchin, Chris Lawson, Tim Pitt-Payne, Caroline Pybus, Theresa Samms, Nancy Wall)