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Have you ever had something that you have heard of frequently but never actually seen for yourself, and then one day you get the opportunity to see it?

When I accepted the job to come to this church in Scarborough a little over five years ago, I had never at that point in my life been to Scarborough. My first visit to Scarborough was to come and look at potential houses, and I got the chance to see the seaside town of which I had heard much but never been.

When you are young, you tend to look ahead. Your life stretches out ahead of you, and you can have all kinds of dreams and ambitions. “When I grow up, I want to be a...” And that continues through your teenage years for a while. For most of us, there comes an age when you start to look back instead. Back at a golden age, a golden age that is no more. It could be a golden era in your past. The dream job that you once had but no longer do. The dream house you lived in but then you had to move. The dream family that you no longer have.