Thank you for rainbows and sunshine. Thank you for friends and family and church. Thank you for your promise to be always with us. Thank you for your love. Amen HYMN 250 ‘Christ, when for us you were baptized’ REFLECTION By Rev Martin Goodwin, with thanks. It's a strange time, Lent. For the next several weeks, along with giving up whatever it is we're giving up, we'll be taking up something too. Taking up our cross anew, and walking with Jesus to Jerusalem. Lent is a journeying time. Some of us, when we travel, like to get to a place as quickly as possible - the destination's the thing. I wonder if sometimes we do this a bit with Lent? For me it is…'Okay, no chocolates for the next five weeks and then - resurrection, Easter eggs, Yipee!' It's so easy to fall into