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’.
However I mark this Salvation Day, in worship, in passion plays, in processions, I know that by day’s end I am loved. May you know that same deep deep love which called our Beloved to the Cross that He might die for love of our love.
Let us not waste one hour in fear, in dullness, in despondency, for He is never nearer than when we do not see Him…
In these last few days of Lent step closer. Try to stand at the cross and remember what it was the first time you stood there as a lost sinner.
Then, as the Laodicean Christians were encouraged, listen for the knocking of the Light of the World on your heart’s door and let love in.
…I learned to pray, ‘Love through me, Love of God’.
To understand the force of any Scripture, a good plan is to put it into opposite words….
Cherished by the One we cherish we are transformed and enabled to love the unlovely with the same love which turned our inner beast into beauty.
Easter has always been BOGOF – Buy One Get One Free.
…not deserving this the greatest of all gifts, have the love of the One Who Loves us Best lavished upon us not once but twice! We are saved by the death of our Beloved and we are saved even more by His Resurrection.
When two people who love the Lord misunderstand each other and get into a tangle, there is generally a mistake which a few honest words will clear up.
Suffolk Vicar 