Shaw Church

Welcome

We are the Church of England parish of St Mary’s Shaw cum Donnington – just to the north and east of Newbury.

Our purpose and focus is Knowing Jesus, Sharing God’s Love, Caring for People.
You can read more about it here.

We meet every Sunday at 10am, as well as at other times during the week.
Everyone is welcome to join us.

Word for the Week

• It’s Time30 January 2025

  What’s the time? It’s easy to find out if you have a watch or there’s a clock nearby. Although I’ve seen people look at the time, and then be asked ‘what time is it?’ and they have to look again. I once heard a watch being called ‘the god on your wrist’.

  The world we live in has two reliable natural clocks which give us the basis of counting time: the daily dawn and dusk, and the annual cycle of the year; but there are other things that recur in a less regular fashion: economic ups and downs; good and bad years of harvest; even snow and wind – they come and go ways we wish we could predict with some certainty.

  I don’t think God worries about our human clocks very much, but he does have a sense of ‘the right time’. A right time for the things he is doing (“at just the right time … Christ died” Rom 6:5), and a right time us to do things. “When the time came” Luke tells us, Mary came to the temple with Jesus to make an offering.

  So, what about me? Do I live by the ticking second-hand, or is God’s time something I can sense, wait for, and fall in with?

   

  Raymond.