The Same Old ‘New & Improved’ Address before the opening of a meeting of the newly elected Felixstowe Town Council Wednesday 15 May 2019 There was a time, when I was much much younger and had no idea what cynicism meant, that I used to be excited about new things. New toys to play with,… Continue reading The Same Old ‘New & Improved’
Always hope, always ask, always help – in this way miracles happen and the Church is strengthened.
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’
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.
God has an annoying habit of upturning apple carts and interrupting our lives. No more so than with the epmty tomb of Easter. The challenge we face is to decide if we will let God interfere with our lives.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Every so often God works in and through us despite us and uses ditress and upset to bring restoration and renewal.
Suffolk Vicar 