With a Song in my Heart – Day 6
The one about..
If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill’, and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?
The one about..
If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill’, and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?
Every so often a hymn comes along that says ‘Yes!’ to all your questions about faith and the ‘whichness of the why’. This is mine.
Some of us have a ‘Damascus Road Experience” when we can point to a particular time of ‘Conversion’. Others have been nurtured in the faith from the cradle and have always known themselves held by God. All of us need to look for daily moments of turning away from ourselves and towards God
We do not hold the anchor; the anchor holds on to us!
Sometimes the very first thing you learn about something is the one thing that lasts forever. For me the journey of faith begun and continues in a joy that uses the time of Lent to help us celebrate Easter
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When bread is not bread and manna is second best
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Mercy & Grace – 40 Days with the Music of Amy Grant Easter Day These Reflections which take the music of Amy Grant as their theme, were originally published in Lent 2015. They are being republished during the Covid19 pandemic which is affecting the whole world To Read: From the Scriptures: 6 Then I heard… Continue reading Mercy & Grace – Easter Day