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It's a Leap Year: this month we have that 4 yearly phenomenon, a 29th February. It set me pondering that it would really be rather nice if that day could be an extra, a special day, not called Monday, Tuesday, or whichever, but something completely different. How about "Museday"? It could be used for amusement and fun, or to muse and be reflective.
However, to have an 8th day in the week once every four years would shake the order of our lives and rhythms, so maybe not: it will just have to remain as a flight of fancy.
Even so, taking time for fun and reflection is important, and February finds many people enjoying pancakes, but also entering a time of reflection in Lent. There will be the usual opportunity to join a Lent house group to learn and study together with our friends from All Saints'.
Three of our delightful young people will be combining fun with something serious over the next few months. Georgie Agar, Martha
Graham and Jas Stockham are going to India in August, with David and Fiona Jewell and a few others from where the Jewells now live in Callington. While they are in India, they are going to help with some of the children in the slums in Calcutta, offering them the chance to have a wash and receive fresh clothing, food and drink, the opportunity to learn a little and have fun, to know that they are valued and people do care. No doubt it will be an eye-opening experience for all, but so is the challenge to pay for the trip and ways to help these children who live in such poverty.
So the girls are arranging a series of fundraising activities. The first is a table-top sale on 4 February at the Scout Hall from 9 am- 12.30 pm, with refreshments, crafts and hair braiding available; and the second is a concert on the evening of 20 February at the
Chapel. Do please look out for publicity around the village and support the various events if you can. For many it will be a reflective month, but let's hope it's full of fun too, to lift our spirits in these uncertain times. All sorts of interesting and exciting things are bubbling up and are anticipated later in the year in the chapel, including Martha's baptism by full immersion on the eleventh; more of that in the March Journal.
Meanwhile have a blessed February, and does anyone want to join me in advocating having a 'Museday' every four years?
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