Word for the Week

What can we do that will truly last?

Week beginning: 4th June, 2017 | By Caroline Eade | Cambridge

"Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn people back to dust, saying, 'Return to dust, you mortals.'... May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendour to their children. May the favour of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us - yes, establish the work of our hands."

Psalm 90: 2-3, 16-17 (NIV 2011)

Every now and again something happens to remind us of our frailty and transience - the failure of a major project that we have invested much in; sudden ill-health; the death of a loved one.

Only the Lord is "from everlasting to everlasting". Unless h