Prayers for every day life
Lighting a candle
Lord,
may this candle be a light for you to enlighten me
in my difficulties and decisions.
May it be a fire for you to burn out of me all selfishness and sin.
My it be a flame for you to bring warmth into my heart
towards my family, neighbours and all who meet me.
I place in your care those I come now to remember, especailly……..
I cannot stay long here with you:
in leaving this candle I wish to give you something of myself.
Hlep me to continue my prayer
into everything I do this day.
Amen
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About Annette
Greetings to everyone who finds ” Paxtonvic” blog.
Paxtonvic is Rev Annette Reed, Vicar of Little and Great Paxton with Diddington in Cambridgeshire near to St Neot’s.
Here I am with Charlie B who comes and visits from time to time.
Do come in and explore Paxtonvic.
You will find a lot of information on the many posts about Little Paxton, Great Paxton and Diddington as well as St Neots and the surrounding villages.
I have another blog just about Great Paxton: www.greatpaxtononline.wordpress.com
If you feel moved to do so, please leave a comment. Its easy to do that – just click on ” comment” at the bottom of each entry and a little box comes up which you can type in.
If you would rather just read about St James Church at Little Paxton, please go to :
http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/littlepaxton/
Ive been living in Little Paxton since October 2006 and from September 2007 have been Rural Dean of St Neots.
St James Church at Little Paxton
I was born Annette Richings in Boscombe near Bournemouth by the sea in 1954. My late mother says that I was born in a Nursing Home in a place called Tuckton which had connections with Leo Tolstoy – Im grateful to a recent contributor who backed up this story in a comment on this page.
Some of my earliest memories are of being on Boscombe sands, playing in the waves and pulling on the penny fruit machines with my Grandad Will Trimby helping me. We moved to Portsmouth when I was 9 years old and here is me at Portsmouth Grammar Schhol c 12yrs old.
When I was 13 years old we moved to Oxford and it was there that I fell in love with the Church of England as we lived in Christ Church College where my father was a lodge porter. I used to go to Oxford Cathedral most days for evensong and something got right under my skin and has stayed there ever since…
If I had to define my ” churchmanship” ( always seemed a strange word to me) I would say I am a warm fuzzy Liberal Anglican who delights in welcoming people into the church commuity who ever and however they are. I am pleased when people enjoy coming to worship of any kind, but am equally at home out about and getting involved in the community. I am passionate about church buildings – both in respect of their architecture and also in regards as to how they may be adapted/re-ordered to serve their communities better.
Love plants and growing things, resoring old furniture, fresh air and music of all kinds. Work too hard – but then I guess I enjoy it a lot. I have two children Michael who is a teacher and Adele who is a student in Coventry and love seeing them when I can.
Please be assured I NEVER name drop in this blog or make out I’m anything special.. hate that sort of thing….
( I’m on the left!)
( April 2006 – somewhere posh in London)
See – I didnt always have grey hair!!
My vices are seriously bad – watching the X -factor and e-baying. Suppose they could be worse….!
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