Being lonely sucks! Enforced loneliness while others are going about their ordinary business sucks even more. Yet it is often int the empty times, the lonely times, when we are able to hear God’s voice more clearly and find light in the midst of the dark.
Humility is often intertwined with service. Yet there can be a service that does not add to humility. True humility is of the earth, ‘humus’, and aims to put itself under the feet of everyone and so supporting all.
What key ‘notes’ make up the symphony fo your song for God? Franciscans are called to place humility, love, and joy as the theme for the rhythm of their life.
The Shorter Catechism tells us that the ‘chief end of man is to love God and enjoy him for ever’. Learning to do all things for love and with joy will transform the world.
‘Works a curse!’ It need not be if we decided instead of serving ourselves we use the sweat of our brow to serve others
Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 24 Tuesday after 4th Sunday of Lent A Lenten Journey with the Rule of the Third Order of the Society of St Francis These Reflections which take the Rule of the Third Order as their springboard, were originally published in Lent 2012 are being republished during Easter… Continue reading Walking in the Footsteps of Christ – Day 24
If we limit the voice of God to the words of the Bible we become deaf to God’s action in the world around us and cannot see God’s hand at work in the Scientist’s laboratory, the Doctor’s surgery, or the Politicians manifesto.
If we set out on a journey to hear the Voice of God one of the first steps must be to pick up the words God has spoken down the years to faithful people all over the world.
At a time when we are not allowed to travel, our common life has been diminished, and truth changes with the daily newspaper headlines, we need to discover once more what it means to know Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life
If God knows everything what is the point of making our confession? Surely the public act of confession in our worship and the private telling our sins to a priest is redundant?
A time of ‘fessing up’, whichever way we are called to do it, is a time of self-discovery and an opportunity to know again how much God loves us.
Suffolk Vicar 