Happy New Year! We are now a week into 2025. Have you decided on any resolutions? Have you kept the ones you have made? I don’t make resolutions. Or, I don’t make New Year Resolutions. The pressure to be original and the lack of hope that I will actually stick to them put me off.Continue reading “Word for the year”
Tag Archives: 2024
Taize: a reflection in Silence and Simplicity
As I write I am watching the sun rise over the hills surrounding this french community (quite a feat for someone not normally a morning person!) I am coming to the end of a week at Taize. For those who don’t know, Taize is a religious community in France, slightly north of Leon. It wasContinue reading “Taize: a reflection in Silence and Simplicity”
In the silence
It’s Easter Saturday, the day between Jesus’ crucifixion and Jesus’ rising. I have a number of friends who have already put up their colourful Easter wreaths, who have already started wishing others “Happy Easter”, even my t-shirt says ‘Spoiler alert! The tomb was empty!’ None of these are bad things – we live in aContinue reading “In the silence”
2024 40 days of lent: day 11 – Follow the instructions
Aware I have 2 day’s musings to write up, I am nonetheless pushing forward to write today’s musings. They are musings triggered by a sermon I heard yesterday. Well, part of it. I was visiting friends and we went to their church, so the voice at the front was new to me. They started withContinue reading “2024 40 days of lent: day 11 – Follow the instructions”
2024 40 days of lent: belated day 7 – Mind the gap
I had an unusual week which just left me without time to write a blog post on a couple of days, although I did draft the idea. This one was a reminder in a book I had been reading called ‘God is closer than you think’ by John Ortberg, one of my favourite theological writers.Continue reading “2024 40 days of lent: belated day 7 – Mind the gap”
2024 40 days of lent: day 8 – Car Crash
On my way to rehearsal this evening, someone drove into the back of me. Coming up to a roundabout, the car in front of me stopped to let a pedestrian cross, I had time to stop but the car behind me didn’t. The noise was the worst bit, but no one was hurt, the carContinue reading “2024 40 days of lent: day 8 – Car Crash”
2024 40 days of lent: day 6 – New every morning
The other morning I was up early. I’m not usually a morning person, but on this particular morning I was up and active early (and slightly tired). And I got the opportunity to see the sky change from dark to slightly grey and then a glorious sun rise. It was beautiful and breathtaking – cloudsContinue reading “2024 40 days of lent: day 6 – New every morning”
2024 40 days of lent: day 5 – For God so loved the world…
John 3:16 is one of the most well known and frequently quoted bible verses (in my experience, I haven’t done a detailed study!) It says, ‘God so loved the world that he sent his only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.’ It is a good Bible verse, especiallyContinue reading “2024 40 days of lent: day 5 – For God so loved the world…”
2024 40 days of lent: day 4 – Time Out
My brain is a little fuzzed this evening. The way things have worked out recently, proper days off don’t come easily, I have to properly plan them in. I’m sure I’m not alone in that. It is so easy to be tempted into working, either for our paid job if we are fortunate enough toContinue reading “2024 40 days of lent: day 4 – Time Out”
2024 40 days of lent: day 3 – those who’ve gone before
Jesus lived 2000 years ago. (I know, technically Jesus lived from the beginning as still lives now, but his earthly life was 2000 years ago). In the time since his death, resurrection and ascension, there have been millions if not billions of people who followed him and his teaching, commonly called Christians. In some ChristianContinue reading “2024 40 days of lent: day 3 – those who’ve gone before”
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