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.
Category: Growing in God
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.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 33
We often sing ‘All are welcome. All are welcome, All are welcome in this place.’ but not everyoen feels they are. Why doesn’t the church open its doors to those who are ‘different?’
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 32
Sometimes lonely but never alone – the church is called to ensure that everyone knows they belong and call us from our ‘aloneness’ into community.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 31
In our busy-ness with all the work we do for the church we may easily forget our call and find ourselves surrounded by shepherdless sheep.
Suffolk Vicar 