The Flower Festival provides a backdrop to our Patronal Festival which this year falls on Sunday 10 August. We hope that the church can be a place where the whole community feels welcome and at home and our Flower Festival tries to celebrate this aspiration. To this end, we hope as many as possible in the community choose to be represented. Mrs Rona Cambray has very kindly agreed to be our Chief Coordinator again, supported by the St Lawrence Flower Arrangers` Group. She, and they, in turn would warmly welcome your support and participation.
Theme, Details and How to Book In Your Display
The theme for 2008 is Heaven Sent. The arrangement, as in previous years, could be accompanied by a personal choice of poetry, prose, bible extract, musical/song quotation, etc – or could simply be depicted by colour and tasteful artefact For more information contact Rona Cambray 01327 858521.
HEAVEN SENT
I guess we have all had those moments in time when quite out of the blue somewhere within us we feel something profound. These are the moments we want to share this year. Perhaps it was a piece of music or literature that brought a tear to your eye, or someone or somewhere that made your heart smile.
Let me share one of mine with you.
I was travelling in California in 1984 with my sister and we visited an old mission, still in use. The mission itself had a wonderful presence about it and the grounds were magnificent. In the gift shop I picked up and read for the first time ‘Footprints’. As I reached the end I found tears streaming down my face.
Sometime later, whilst accompanying a group of teenagers to a student’s funeral, a car stopped next to me as I walked up Brackley Road. The driver leaned over and said that she had been shopping and had seen this card. It was the last one on the shelf but it had spoken to her. However, having seen me that morning she said I needed it more than she did. I took the card and there again was ‘Footprints’. It took me weeks to find out who the lady was to thank her.
The original copy is framed and still hangs on my kitchen wall. Rona Cambray
