KEYS

Losing a key is a real worry.  Finding it causes celebration.  You probably both know the pain of losing a key and the joy of finding it – if not yet, prepare for it! It may be a physical key or a password, perhaps even an identity. Many will want to steal what you have and exploit your loss if they can. How many keys do you carry on your keyring?  How many passwords have you had to store in your memory or somewhere else?  They all unlock something of value to you.  We are not born with a key to the meaning of life – how handy that would have been! It is something we have to search for and, if we have courage to open the door, then use. The slight difficulty is knowing which is the right key from the many alternatives – all cut precisely, maybe obviously with marked differences or possibly looking quite similar.

  • ‘Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity’ – W Clement Stone

FREEDOM

The Channel Island of Jersey has a public area known as Liberation Square where freedom from military occupation is celebrated annually on the 9th of May.  There are still many signs on the island of that painful occupation during World War Two – discarded bunkers, gun towers and casemates ravage the otherwise beautiful coastland as reminders of Hitler’s mighty ‘Atlantic Wall’.  A day after VE Day, German forces surrendered unconditionally and Jersey found precious freedom again.  It is not just in war that people lose freedom and live under the tyranny of occupation – many are living like this today but this is not the destiny for a child of God.  Are you on the freedom path?