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Haywards Heath United Reformed Church is a warm and welcoming church in the heart of town.
Part of the Mid Sussex Joint Pastorate, we meet for worship on Sundays at 10.45am.
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Thought for the Month -
August 2026
by
Rev Michael Powell
SUMMER YEARNING: WINTER MULLING OVER
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Ages ago in London I bought a second-hand book of multi-faith prayers. As I recall, one prayer hinged on the word ‘temperate’ and talked with God about temperate winds and temperate weather. Please bless us, I hear it saying, with temperate conditions of heat and cold; light and dark; wind and breeze; wet and dry. Extremes are hard to live with, it seemed to imply.
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In this hot summer of 2026 I have been wondering, is a yearning love of the temperate something to be valued and passed on? Or even, is being lovingly temperate a facet of the nature of God? I think it often is – but possibly not always, because that might start us on a slippery slope towards making God out of our own images, likes/dislikes and even physiologies.
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Probably ‘Temperateness’ is a bit like ‘Mildness’. We are rightly wary of the ‘Gentle Jesus meek and mild’ sort of idea but good mildness is strong. Inevitably Christmas will come and we shall find ourselves singing ‘mild he lays his glory by…’.
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How, I wonder, may this hot summer’s yearning for the ‘temperate’ link up with our future winter mulling over of ‘mildness’?
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Keep cool!