Reverend Ann's Letter

February 2026

I am a big fan of the TV series, The Repair Shop.  In it incredibly skilled craftspeople mend people’s treasured possessions, usually items that have real emotional value and that have been passed down through families. I find this is so comforting to watch because we see people with huge skill being entrusted with people’s damaged and worn out treasures and bringing them back to life.

On the first Sunday of February we celebrate the Feast of Candlemas which officially marks the end of Epiphany, a time when we recall the Word made flesh, the Incarnation, and then on the 18th we mark Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. I read something this week that said at Candlemas we turn from the cradle to the cross. 

And as we turn towards Lent and then Easter, we know that Jesus not only became a flesh and blood person but suffered and died in order to offer us a way of being mended, all of us.  So we are called not to entrust our treasured possessions but to entrust ourselves to Christ, and we can do this with confidence because we know that he has experienced what we experience.  He has taken our human, material lives and through his death and resurrection offered up all of our brokenness and given us back the way in which we can be mended and made whole.

Just like watching The Repair Shop, I find so much comfort in this. I can honestly say that although I may not always recognise it or see it, God is working through his creation all the time, and because of what Jesus did, God is working through us too.

Through Jesus, our ordinary human lives can become places where God’s glory shines. The Word became flesh to bring us all into God’s family. The Word became flesh to help us see every human life as being holy in God’s eyes.  Let us pray that, even in these scary and unprecedented times, we may see this too.

Go well,

Ann.