Of the online memes doing the rounds on our social media this week, this one caught my eye. Have a read… It got me thinking about perspective and the broad sweep of God’s plan, story and narrative (something we explored together last Saturday as the power of story and metaphor in God’s quiver of communication tools). Our society today is said to…
Helping People to Meet God • Make Friends • Grow in Faith
Helping People to Meet God • Make Friends • Grow in Faith
The day we returned to New Zealand from Switzerland, an old family friend died. I was the executor of the estate, so she must have had some trust in me. I had not seen her for nearly three years, but I did go to her funeral. At the funeral we were given a packet of wildflower seeds, but somehow I never had…
God can do anything. People are not able to achieve anything but because we have been given free will and many abilities we can do a lot. Nowadays, with so many difficulties and problems challenging the people(s) of Earth we need to keep faith in God and a sense of optimism is required as well, I believe, or sometimes we could have…
Aren’t lenses amazing things? Not only do they enable us to see clearly with the aid of our glasses, but they reveal so much more to us besides, whether through hand-held lenses, optical microscopes, telescopes, binoculars, or electron microscopes. When I was a child, my parents gave me a microscope one Christmas. That amazing present opened up new worlds for me. I…
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…
Que estemos dispuestos a escuchar con humildad y juntos alcanzar ese conocimiento nuevo que Dios quiere que crezca en nuestro corazón. Démosle la oportunidad a nuestro señor Jesucristo de permanecer en nuestra vida y que nos permita servir en lugar de ser servido. Que nos permita ayudar más a los demás y velar por nuestro…
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…