What we need is a Saviour.
Someone who knows about the costly price of making peace.
Someone who can carry this cross for us.
Someone who we can gaze upon, be captivated by, and try to imitate.
O Breath of Life whose winds blow about me now, let me be all open to Thee today.
One of the chief joys of friendship is the sense of being understood. You are free to think aloud, you do not need to be careful.
Now is the time to open our eyes more widely.
Now is the time to give our shackles a shake; they are ready to fall off.
Now is the time to drink deeply from the well of Living Water.
Whatever form our hard ground may take at the moment, let us rejoice in our lilies and listen to their testimony. There is an end set to pain – to sin.
We can’t always have the physical ‘Hiding Places’ that wonderful saints such as Corrie Ten Boom have provided for people fleeing all sorts of pain and persecution, but we do have our Beloved
Let us die while still inspiring everybody. Make us inspirers of others to the very end.
Meeting Jesus [Mary Magdalene] knew she could no longer be the false self she was living, trying to gain acceptance by being a plaything of others instead of being the servant of the Lord.
A lover of our Lord was asked which of all His words she would most wish to hear Him say to her. She answered: ‘Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations.’
When we finally learn that indeed, ‘your steadfast love is better than life’, the only thing we can do is praise and dance and sing.
Suffolk Vicar 