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Return from Dunkirk
Before most people had telephones, let alone email, the telegram was the nearest we had to instant communication. Few people under 30 will have ever seen one.
In the dark days of the Second World War, the sight of a telegraph boy bringing a Post Office telegram up the path was feared, because so often it brought news of a serviceman missing in action or dead.
When Eric Skelding escaped from Dunkirk (with a large part of the British Army), he sent a telegram to his mother to say he was safe. "Some kind person in the Post Office wrote 'Good news' in pencil on the envelope. I have always been grateful to that unknown person," he said recently. His mother was saved from a fearful experience.
Many people fear to open a Bible, thinking that it is full of stories about a hard and frightening God. Or perhaps they think there is nothing
significant in it at all - an empty envelope. It is so easy to have a false image of God - maybe one that we received at school or home, or
sadly, even at a church.
If this is how you feel, imagine the words "good news" written on the cover of a Bible. For that is all that the word "gospel" means. Some
people describe the Bible as a series of love letters. For the good news is - that God loves you more than you can imagine, and has plans for your life better than you can begin to think! You and Jesus - it's a relationship. Of healing, of forgiveness with freedom from guilt and fear,
of new starts, of fun, of LIFE.
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