LOOKING BACK OVER THE PAST 200 YEARS
As Kim and I enjoyed our weekly coffee-date this morning at Stillwater, she looked out ruminatively across at all of the development that has taken place over the years where the North and South Esks merge to form the Tamar River.
“I wonder if the settlers who came here two hundred years ago” she asked, “could have imagined the silos would have been built over there and then turned into a luxury hotel, or that two bridges would have been built here, or that their tiny village would grow into a large city?”
“What’s more interesting” I responded, “is if anyone today can envision what it will all look like in another two hundred years!”
And my response then got me thinking. Could it be possible to imagine what Launceston will end up looking like in two hundred years—and, what about our church? What will our church will look like in two hundred years?
DOES THE LION SEEM BIGGER TO YOU?
In C.S. Lewis’s, CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, he tells how Aslan always appears bigger to those who come to know him more.