Fiscal Prudence in the Kingdom of God
In Public and Private life many of our ventures fail because we do not completely commit ourselves to them. Commitment to Christ enables all our other loves to be ordered correctly.
Category: Growing in God
Battle Wounds
‘The salvation of my enemy is tied up in my own’ and so even when they attack, malign, or belittle me I must learn to bear their wounds so we may both become whole
The Mystery of the Fatherless Father’s Day
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
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 40
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.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 39
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?
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 38
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.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 37
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.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 36
Every so often God works in and through us despite us and uses ditress and upset to bring restoration and renewal.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 35
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.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 34
How we welcome lost lambs back into the Body of Christ says as much about us as it does about the penitent. We must beware, in so doing, of turning our God into a Judge rather than a Redeemer.
Suffolk Vicar 