Don’t Touch – words for Low Sunday
The old chorus exhorts us to ‘Reach out and touch the Lord’ but we live in a time when touching brings death instead of life. How do we still sing ‘Alleluia’ at the beginning of an Easter that feels more like Lent.
Category: Easter
Answering God – Easter Day
Answering God is not a task for Lent alone but an every day attitude of listening for God’s voice whispering ‘Where are you?’ and then running towards the One WHo has always called our name.
While it was Still Dark
The light always, always shines brightest in the deepest darkness
Living in the Past; Hoping for the Future
Currently, due to Covid-19 restrictions, our parish is running an hour behind the rest of the nation.
Perhaps not a bad thing as looking to the past in times of crisis reminds us of God’s faithfulness then, comfort now and hope for the future
Jesus and the Health Lottery
When Jesus asks the sick man ‘Do you want to be made well?’ he asks us and our churches the same question. Only those who know their own need of healing can be used in the healing of others
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?
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 – Easter Day
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.
Yeah, but no, but yeah, but… Vicky Pollard does 🐣
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.
Of Mice & Marshwiggles – Easter Day – Farewell to the Shadowlands
Of Mice & Marshwiggles – Easter Day – Farewell to the Shadowlands To Read: Setting the Scene: The Last Battle, of all the Chronicles of Narnia, is the one which by Lewis own admission ‘pulls no punches’ in its allegory of the Christian journey. At its end Aslan speaks to all the children who… Continue reading Of Mice & Marshwiggles – Easter Day – Farewell to the Shadowlands
Suffolk Vicar 