Ansty Road United Reformed Church, Coventry

12/02/2026

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09/01/2026

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02/01/2026

From Whispering Grace

A new year begins quietly.
Not with everything sorted
or all questions answered
but with a fresh breath
and space to begin again.

We step forward carrying what last year gave us.
The joy.
The tiredness.
The lessons we didn’t ask for
but learned anyway.
None of it wasted.
All of it held.

This year isn’t blank because we’re starting alone.
It’s open because God goes with us.
Ahead of us.
Beside us.
Within every ordinary day still to come.

So we don’t need to rush.
We don’t need to have it all planned.
We just take the next step
with hope in our hearts
and trust in the One
who keeps making things new.

Happy New Year.

© E Hamilton 2026

01/01/2026

01/01/2026

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At the Turning

We stand at the edge of a year,
one foot still in what’s been,
the other hovering over what we can’t yet name.
Memories behind us.
Questions ahead.
Hands not quite ready to let go
and not quite ready to receive.

There’s relief here.
And grief.
Things we’re glad to leave behind.
Things we wish we could carry forward untouched.
The ache of endings
and the pull of beginnings
meeting in the same breath.

This turning isn’t empty.
It’s held.
The clean slate isn’t ours to manage alone.
Newness isn’t something we have to manufacture.
The future isn’t something we have to force open.

God invites us to step forward anyway.
Not with answers,
but with trust.
Not with certainty,
but with a hand offered
steady and sure.

So we don’t rush the goodbye.
We honour what’s been.
We bless what we’re leaving behind.
And we take the next step
into mystery and wonder
held by the One
who goes before us
and stays beside us.

This is how we cross the threshold.
Not fearless.
But faithful.

© E Hamilton 2025

26/12/2025

A constant reminder if Christmas -- courtesy of Lizzie.
We hope everyone had a peaceful and restful Christmas.

22/12/2025

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Advent and the longest night.
Waiting and weariness
sharing the same space.
Hope spoken softly
because grief is loud just now.

This night carries what we carry.
Loss that still aches.
Names we miss saying out loud.
Questions that don’t settle easily.
The kind of dark that arrives early
and stays longer than we want.

Advent doesn’t rush us past this.
It doesn’t tell us to cheer up
or hurry toward morning.
It sits with us here
in the half light
and lets the honesty breathe.

God comes into this night with us,
holding the questions,
the tears,
the silence that has no words yet.
Christ comes into this darkness too
not as a blaze
but as a presence that stays.

We light what little light we can.
Not to chase the dark away
but to remind ourselves
that love still holds.
That waiting isn’t empty.
That even now
something is being born.

On this longest night
Advent whispers
that dawn will come.
Not because we’re ready
but because God is faithful.

And for tonight
that is enough.

© E Hamilton 2025

22/12/2025

He's ar The Pippin tonight. Hot chocolate available for the children.
Come and join him

17/12/2025

Christmas lunch on Sunday after a lovely Christening and communion. A beautiful start to Christmas.

17/12/2025

After a beautiful carol service reflecting on Christmas a lovely reflection on Advent.
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Advent finds us in locked places.
Some with bars and keys,
some with memories that won’t loosen their grip,
some with grief that keeps the door shut,
some with loneliness that echoes too loud.

There are cells you can see
and cells you carry inside.
Fear.
Regret.
Absence.
Names we don’t say out loud
but feel every day.

Into all of that, Christ comes.
Not standing at a distance.
Not asking for explanations.
But he comes close
to the ones the world forgets,
to the ones who feel stuck
in a story they can’t rewrite.

Advent reminds us
that no door is too heavy for love.
No life too far gone for hope.
No night too long for peace
to find its way in.

We can’t fix everything.
We can’t undo the past.
But we can and must carry Christ’s love and light
into places that ache.
A visit.
A prayer.
A letter.
A listening ear.
A kindness that says
you’re still seen.

And where love goes,
hope follows.
Peace settles.
Joy flickers
even in the dark.

This is Advent work.
Waiting with those who wait.
Standing beside those who feel trapped.
Trusting that God is already at work
unlocking hearts
and making room for new beginnings.

Christ is coming.
Even here.
Especially here.

© E Hamilton 2025

09/12/2025

We would love to see you at the carol service. Take some time for yourself.