Recently, we were thinking about the current world situation, our human preoccupation with data about the Covid-19 pandemic and the lack of wisdom that sometimes surfaces in the ways we deal with such important issues. Our attention was drawn to the poem ‘The Rock’ by T.S. Eliot. This relates to the well-know DIKW Pyramid (diagram) which purports to illustrate the way that…
Helping People to Meet God • Make Friends • Grow in Faith
Helping People to Meet God • Make Friends • Grow in Faith
Posts by Rusty (Page 21)
It’s the 2nd of May. On “May the 4th” Star Wars fans worldwide celebrate “May the Force…” and we see all sorts of “May the 4th (Force)” memes pop up on our social media. When the film first came out, some Christians made much of “the Force” and used it as an allegory of the Gospel or the Holy Spirit. The Bible…
It will be some weeks yet until we will be able to meet again in the Church. Maybe it is at a time like this when we think again about our prayer life at home. I think there are many different habits of that, and we will probably adjust as our situations change. Having children certainly also influenced my daily routine in…
I have been gently reprimanded, self-reprimanded, conscience motivated, whatever directive one keeps to use for feeling one ‘orta do something’ Yea-OK “God was telling me” there I said it. He organised my spending less time “getting the house in order” and so spend more time thinking about LIFE and him. Priorities, with God, are always ‘him first’. The apostles, those that were…
It was the shaking that woke me, short, sharp and pushing sideways. ‘It’s just a small one’ –I reassured myself, already drifting back to sleep. Then-thwack! This time I tapped the bedside light, sat up and discovered the ‘quake’ was my Australian Terrier jumping against the bed. I was more than a little peeved! ‘Really Lily!’ I scolded ‘Surely you don’t need…
My father would always add a caveat to any plan he might make, with the words ‘all being well’. What he really meant in his heart was ‘God willing’, but he came from a long family line (like me after him) for which any utterance of God’s name, in any way that might be construed as being disrespectful, was almost a capital…
While some of the most stringent restrictions of the Lockdown may end soon, the country will still be determined by the response to COVID-19 for some time. Public worship services will not recommence before we are at Level 2: the Bishop will issue further instructions when and how such services may be celebrated and to what extent we can open the church…
There has been a silver lining to the terrible human tragedy of Coronavirus and that is the bouncing back of nature and the environment. You will have heard of the Venice canals running clear and the return of fish, for the first time in living memory. In Wellington a very rare leucistic tauhou (waxeye) was photographed by Holly Neil. In other places,…
The beach is my favourite place. Some people love going into the bush, some love climbing mountains, some love the canyons of cities. I love the beach. For ten years I lived and worked across the road from one of Australia’s most popular beaches. From my office I could see to the where the sea and sky met, and watch dolphins, whales,…
Anyone keeping “in touch” under lockdown via IT will be aware of the amount of humour loose on the …….whatever waves they are. Did you see the picture of one of our ‘guardians’ of the lockdown admonishing our Lord for the intention of breaking the rule of staying at home over the holiday? He was emerging from his tomb, slightly breathless after…