In Due Season

Regular readers will know that for the first time in sixteen years (the entire period spent in my current house), I arranged some new decoration. Gone is the pink (!) and cigarette-yellow; their replacement is a nice Victorian red, cream and white. It looks rather good, even if I say so myself, notwithstanding the fact that someone else did the work and two ladies suggested the colours. Otherwise, I have every reason to congratulate myself.

Completed by midday of Friday afternoon, it was suitably cleaned and refurnished by evening, in time for a youth gathering Saturday morning and a supper for the Yorkshire Camps volunteers on Sunday night. Over twenty-five people enjoyed using the room that weekend, and only one (an adult), noticed any difference. Far from being offended, I am delighted. Décor which attracts excessive comment is either ostentatious, distracting, tasteless or absent. That it warrants no particular exclamation is a compliment to its design.

We are currently in need of sound technicians at the chapel. Compared to most churches, our sound system is simple and basic, though its management is still beyond my wit. Controlling microphones’ volume and knowing when to turn up, down or off is the kind of job which attracts immediate attention when one makes a mistake, but no notice at all when the job is done successfully.

Do not be troubled if no-one commends your labours or praises your efforts. The God of heaven sees all, and He does not forget. Furthermore, one word of commendation from Him is worth a thousand of earth’s bouquets, laurel wreathes and gift vouchers.

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Galatians 6:9

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