Whispers of His Power – APRIL 10 NOTE: In many years of reading Amy’s work I have never come across words that are as jarring as these. I can understand her words if she is speaking of our own journeys and needing to ‘hate’ that within us that is not lovely. For that reason I’ve decided… Continue reading Whispers of His Power – APRIL 10
Look, and as you look a change will pass over you. You will see that what previously looked impossible is really the only possible thing for a follower of the Crucified to do.
….as the empty shell on the shore is filled with the fullness of the sea as it washes up and over it, so we may be filled to the brim and to overflowing with the fullness of God.
Let us ask our God to put an everlasting Amen to His Will down in the bottom of our souls. And let us ask Him to keep it there.
Can we say what David’s servants said to their king in 2 Samuel 15.15? Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall choose.
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth…
That longsuffering was … for us who also have to bear long with difficult souls.
It seems that after all of the long journey from Bethlehem to Egypt, Nazareth to Galilee, Jerusalem to Golgotha, we finally end up where we began. ‘Do not be afraid!’ But this time the angels and our risen Lord provide an antidote for our fear. For all of our fears.
With [the women] we are called to a persistent and practical faith-filled life which looks each night to be with our Beloved at dawn-break. And, as we fill our emptiness with devotion we too will hear Him call our name from the Garden Tomb
Sometimes even Christians write of death in a sad way. We regret to announce’, they say. The Salvation Army are right in the way they put it, ‘Promoted to Glory’.
Suffolk Vicar 