Sunday 16th October
I love the story Jesus tells about the farmer who hires groups of workers through a long hot day. He agrees a rate for the men he hires first but ends up paying the same rate to the group who only did a few hours in the cool of the dusk. Unsurprisingly the first lot are not impressed. It’s a great story partly because all the cards are clearly in God’s hand but also because he chooses generosity as his way of being. Of course the sting in the tail is that his generosity is going to exceed my expectation and imagination and I need to be alert to that. I’d love St Paul’s to be a community where this generosity is a strong feature of our culture [in many ways I think it already is]. I suspect that whether or not we understand God to be generous is one of the most formative factors in our life with God and each other.
- John Lee, Rector