“As a financial year ends and a new one starts there is always stocktaking, so at the start of this Church year we should all do some spiritual stocktaking,” says soon-to-be-101-year-old Margaret Thurgood from St David’s, Chelmer-Graceville and St Hugh’s, Inala
Bishop Jeremy Greaves reflects on a well-known poem and on spiritual stocktaking: “Just as many of us make New Year’s resolutions in the lead up to December the 31st, Advent isn’t a bad time to take stock of the practices we engage in. To wonder what things are working for us leading us deeper, and whether there are practices in our spiritual life that have become rusted on but no longer really work for us. Why not try something new this Advent?”