Lent 2025: God in the Silence

This process of writing a reflection at the end of the day has been really helpful for me. I find it’s a way to reflect and learn more about God, about deepening my faith as I really apply my mind to seeing God in the day just gone or wrestling with things that provide stumblingContinue reading “Lent 2025: God in the Silence”

Lent 2025: Ordinary joys

This morning, it snowed. Not enough to settle, just a gentle flurry — but enough to make me smile. Snow always feels special, maybe because we don’t see it very often here. It reminds me of childhood winters, of visiting my grandparents in the north and waking up to a world transformed overnight. There’s somethingContinue reading “Lent 2025: Ordinary joys”

Making the ordinary extraordinary

The fourth Sunday of advent is when some churches focus on Mary. Reading the gospels, all we know about Mary is she was a virgin pledged to be married to Joseph in the town of Nazareth in Galilee. She wasn’t remarkable, she had no special quality. She was ordinary. Except… Mary found favour in withContinue reading “Making the ordinary extraordinary”