Battle Wounds
‘The salvation of my enemy is tied up in my own’ and so even when they attack, malign, or belittle me I must learn to bear their wounds so we may both become whole
Category: Bible Study
The Mystery of the Fatherless Father’s Day
As Trinity Sunday falls on Fathers Day we come to see that part of the mystery of the Godhead is that, despite difference of purpose, there is no hierarchy or rank of Person
No Guts, No Glory – Turning Disaster Into Destiny
Jesus takes the disaster of his betrayal by Judas and turns it into the glory of the cross. How can we, faced with our own betrayals and the betrayals of others, turn death into resurrection and hate into love?
Climbing the Stairway to Heaven
Always hope, always ask, always help – in this way miracles happen and the Church is strengthened.
Words, words, words! Eliza Doolittle and Doubting Thomas
When St Thomas makes his annual hesitant visit to our churches we easily quote the lie ‘seeing is believing’. In fact believing can only be based on ‘not seeing’ and choosing to life a life proclaiming ‘My Lord and my God’
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 36
Every so often God works in and through us despite us and uses ditress and upset to bring restoration and renewal.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 34
How we welcome lost lambs back into the Body of Christ says as much about us as it does about the penitent. We must beware, in so doing, of turning our God into a Judge rather than a Redeemer.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 22
The lesson of the cross is that the answer to the world’s pain is to wear it. It is only when we learn to pray for those who hurt us that we will cease paasing on their pain and become like Christ to a hurting world.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 19
To learn that God loves to watch us do what we love to do to prosper the work of the Gospel brings a great freedom and makes ‘drudgery divine’.
