an old flame

The first barbecue of the year and despite our new man credentials the men gather around the fire and the women make salad. The burning of food is actually carried out by one of our older teenagers... We stand by admiringly as the flame is literally passed to a new generation.
This year has been all about that passing on with many of our children now involved in their own churhces... Beginning to catch that vision of transforming the church, transforming the world.
Unlike with passing on in the relay type way we now burn together. The spreading of a flame, we burn brighter, old and new together.