During Lent last year, I invited the two congregations I serve to write down their yearnings on rocks and place them on the riverbeds I had created out of sand. The word ‘river’ is in both their names. After Lent I gathered them up in one of my wooden plates, placed a candle in the centre of it and we use it as our Christ Candle for meetings and study groups. This plate full of yearnings reminds me to listen… to the people… to the Spirit.. to my own souls yearnings.