Mary The Love I love Came in the early dawning Standing as still as light. How could I have dreamed so sweet a morning After so dark a night? Elizabeth Rooney (‘A Widening Light’, Luci Shaw, ed)
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Of late I have been reading poetry. Oh, how very cultured, I hear you cry… Not really… I just have a brain that gets easily bored and thought I’d try something new in my ‘playpen moments’. I recently discovered a Christian poet called Luci Shaw. I find her poems inspiring, challenging and beautiful to read [...]
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I’m speaking at the Sweetchurch this Sunday on Mary, Jesus’ mother. I have loved learning more about this truly amazing woman and can’t wait to do m’sermon! Anyhoo, in my ‘research’ (how grand), I came across this poem which has inspired me to think more deeply about how mind-bogglingly-awesome this ‘Good News’ is! I hope you enjoy [...]
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Well, today I get to blog about TWO of my favourite things… Pancakes… and the Archbishop of York*! I’m a huge fan of Dr John Sentamu, whose passion for sharing God’s love and seeing injustice stamped out is hugely inspiring. And he’s funny. And he plays the bongos. And he makes pancakes. I love him! So it [...]
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I recently bought myself this book: A little treatsky pour moi! I love hymns and old choruses – especially the classics – and I’m really fascinated by the stories behind them. So many have interesting and inspirational origins, I guess one of the reasons they endure is because they are infused with the passion and [...]
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…to grow our faith. Mustard seeds are small. Very small. Be encouraged that even the teeniest speck of faith can be grown and blossomed into something splendid. X
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One of my all time favourite ‘Heroes of the Faith’ stories is of the eminent (some have even said ‘Greatest ’) 20th Century theologian, Karl Barth. And it goes a little something like this: When asked if he could sum up his life’s work and his own theology in just a few words Barth thought [...]
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Wishing you all a wonderful, happy, snow-full (but drivable!) Christmas with the One we Adore and who Adores us so much more than we could every imagine. X
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This Christmas I stumbled across a story called ‘The Legend of the Candy Cane’. Now, it’s a little bit corny (but it’s Christmas, so we’re allowed a bit of ‘corn’, right?) and I’m pretty sure it’s not the historically accurate origin of the candy cane, but it’s a sweet way to get that true-meaning-of-Christmas into [...]
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I know this is a hectic few weeks for everybody, but, seriously, if you’re in a ‘ministry family’ it’s the “most dutiful time of the year…” (which has been known to put a bit of a dampener on proceedings!) Today, though, after a home-visit from some very dour JW’s who pointed out the “pagan” origins [...]
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