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”
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An oasis of tranquility – lent 2023
There is a story of a king who offered a prize for the best painting of peace. I may have told this tale before. Thousands entered and there were paintings of sunsets, of beautiful summers days, of rivers lazily winding their way between trees, of mirror like lakes with perfect reflections, of the night skyContinue reading “An oasis of tranquility – lent 2023”
The Reason for my Hope Blog 