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Hello Everyone,

I am trusting you are well.

I have an English friend who is married to an American woman and together they live in The States with their four children. This time last week everything was normal. Then his very fit Mother-in-law was found motionless on the floor in their home. She had had an Aneurism. She died in under forty-eight hours.

Last evening, I watched on line, her Thanksgiving Service – live from her Church in The States. How quickly things can change.

Our thoughts are very much heading towards Christmas and I am reminded how things dramatically changed for Mary, Jesus’s Mother.

Mary was as we read in Luke 1. 27-38, engaged to be married to Joseph. But an angel arrived and totally changed her plans. He told her “The Lord is with you” (28) and later “Do not be afraid” (30).

Finally, in that reading in Luke we come across the words –

“Nothing is impossible with God”

My Prayers are with you during these unchartered times.

“The Lord is with us”

“We do not need to be afraid”

“Nothing is impossible with God”.

Many Blessings and His Peace.

Alice.

Hello Everyone,

I appreciate your comebacks from recent Prayer Letters. Thank you.

In this, my “Bible Slot” as it has become known, I want to share something of which I have only been aware of in the last two weeks.

We are in a “Mast Year”. Well, I know we have been in 2020 and all that that has brought to us, but this recent knowledge has kind of blown my mind. Apologies to you if you know all about this

Apparently one year in about 10 to 15 years; is called a “Mast Year”. All the trees, especially Oak Trees, produce the largest amount of acorns imaginable. Well above any other year. This just does not happen in Surrey/Sussex/London, it is everywhere in the UK. Amazing to me that they all do it at the same time.

This results in a large amount of food for wildlife and the potential for growth of new trees next year. I do not have the space to explain as I wish, please look this up for yourself.

In this year of untold happenings, this information has spoken to me of a Creator God. No matter what is going on around us in this Pandemic, to me God is showing us in this “Natural” happening; He is still here and is our God at this time.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.
For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit”.  Jeremiah 17. 7.8.

May you know His Blessings as you continue to Trust and Hope in Your Lord.

In Him

Alice.

Hello Everyone,

My Prayers and concern remain with you all during this time. So much has gone on during this year and now we head up to a Christmas, which proves to be controversial as far as the plans are concerned, that have been given to us.

This last week I was in our Surrey Prayer Time. In one of the Prayers the following was said: “Thank you God, you never go into Lockdown”.

Christmas Celebration:
You are invited to the ‘virtual’ Emergency Services Christmas Carols on Monday the 14^th of December 2020 at 7pm.  This will be a great evening to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas with friends and family along with colleagues from Surrey and Sussex Police and other Emergency Services Colleagues.  This event is free but please book a ticket via: CPFN@sussex.pnn.police.uk

Finally, God’s Word. In one of our early morning Zoom Church Prayer meetings recently, it was pointed out how David being a shepherd would; as he wrote Psalm 23, know how vital it was to find water, food, and comfort for his sheep. How excited he would be when he came across such a place.

“They walked beside still waters and rested in green pastures”.

How vital for his sheep. For us too in these exceptionally difficult days, we need to come to Jesus, our Shepherd for everything, to take time out to rest.

We also read in His Word, that “God rejoices over us”. Like David was pleased to see his sheep receiving what they needed, so is God and “It is for His Name’s sake”.  We are blest and others are; as they come into contact with us.

Rest this week in Him

Blessings
Alice

Hello Everyone,

Yet another week and we continue in the battle of what has become the norm of 2020.

I am starting today by sharing with you, a summary of what I have just read written by a DCI.

This Officer was thanking everyone for going the extra mile to make everything work. That includes those people who now undertake to make equipment work so that meetings can take place and training in various parts of the County, whereas before, everyone travelled to be in one room.

I too want to express my gratitude to all of you. Besides caring for yourselves and that is the number one essential, you are out there for everyone else; both your Colleagues and the Public, constantly making sure the work of the Police takes place. A huge thank you.

I want to encourage you too.

If you have seen this Prayer Letter over the last 12 years, you will know that I have a number of favourite verses. The following is one of them. I am sharing it with you again today as in the last few days I have seen a short commentary on it, which truly encourages me.

“You are God’s Handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works; which God prepared in advance for you to do” Eph 2.10.

Please live in the good of the following, based on that verse.

What a promise:
We are loved
We are valued
We have a purpose
We have power.

May you know the empowering of that verse in these coming days.

Remain and Rest in Him.

Blessings
Alice.

Hello Everyone,

I wish to start today with a personal thank you, for your Prayers for the Remembrance Service which took place on 11^th of the 11^th Month 2020 here in Surrey HQ’s. It was a very special time much Blest by the Lord. What a privilege was mine to lead such a Service.

I continue to Pray that you are staying well.

Here in Surrey and Sussex, our new Force Chaplain has arrived, her name is Frances Novillo. I know she would appreciate our Prayers. Moving home and settling into this very large area covering the two Counties would be immense in normal times but in today’s world – an indescribable task.

A few weeks ago, I received a verse from an Officer outside our Prayer Letter distribution area. He told me having been able to return to work after many weeks due to PTSD, that this verse had spoken to him and wanted to share it with me. The verse intrigued me at the time.

Psalm 125 v2:

“As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forevermore”

I did not know from pictures I had seen that there were Mountains around Jerusalem. Apparently, there are hills. One of them being the Mount of Olives. The writer of this Psalm would not have known the significance of this area when he wrote those words in Psalm 125. It is where we find Gethsemane, it is where Jesus wept over Jerusalem and it is also from where Jesus rose into Heaven.

All significant happenings in Jesus’s life are special for us today. As we ponder on the happenings in the world in which we find ourselves today – and have no idea what the future holds for us, God knew all those years before why that Psalm was written. He has our futures in His Hands today.

He knows. He is there and He will be there. Thank You Lord.

Blessings

Alice.