Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 24
Like the Grinch we must learn that friendship and joy is never about possessions and gifts and stuff, but about each other. When we finally realise that all our hearts will ‘Grow three sizes’.
Category: A Trysting Place
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 8
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
With a Song in my Heart – Day 31
With a Song in my Heart – 40 Days of Sacred Songs Day 31 – Wednesday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Listen: Calm me, Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skgc03R2wxg Calm me, Lord, as you calmed the storm; still me, Lord, keep me from harm. Let all the tumult within me cease; enfold me, Lord, in your… Continue reading With a Song in my Heart – Day 31
With a Song in my Heart – Day 11
Some days, if we listen closely and are still enough, we will know the deep truth that God is always with us and alongside us
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Easter Day
The journey to a ‘Trysting Place’ is not for Lent alone. In this final blog find a link to the movie of the book ‘In this House of Brede’ and also details on how to be in contact with a local Religious Commnity.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 40
As Lent draws to a close we run the risk of going back to ‘business as normal’ and not carry all we have learnt with us. What can we do to continue to grow closer to our Beloved.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 39
The Yiddish Proverb ‘When you make plans, God laughs’ is as true for those living the Religious Life as for those on the roller coaster of so called ‘secular life’. What plans do we make for when our plans don’t work out?
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 38
To walk in faith always means going where we have not been before nor to places where we are comofrtable. To be faithful means a leap into the unknown knowing only that our Beloved holds us.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 37
It is a long journey from ‘I want to be alone’ to ‘use me’ but it is the only journey worth travelling and the only example worth following.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 36
Every so often God works in and through us despite us and uses ditress and upset to bring restoration and renewal.
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