The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, a programme of the World Council of Churches, sends groups of people to the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank to help keep the international community informed as to how International agreements and treaties are kept by both Israel and Palestine.
This article was part of a interview process for my application to become an accompanier
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
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.
Until we learn that ‘my’ vocation is as much God’s gift to others as it is to ourselves we will spend more time on caring for ourelves than for others and build a selfish ‘Georgy-Porgy’ theology.
Suffolk Vicar 