A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 17
We are not meant to fight out the ‘fidgets of our faith’ alone. Each of us is enriched if we can find a ‘Trysting Place’ and a trusted freind where and with whom we may find rest for our souls.
Category: Lent
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 16
Be it our Baptismal Promises or the words of a Solemn Profession all these words welcome us into the same Family of God. We must use them to remind us to fall more in love with our Beloved and with each other.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 15
Speaking God’s Word hurts, but it also hurts to keep silent. Learning when to speak and when to keep silent is always a Chance to Die.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 14
The Body of Christ shines brighter when we learn to not insist on always having something to say on everything and that we do not always have to have the first or last word in every conversation.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 13
To tend the griefs of our past we need to find ways of holding them close and making them part of our future. Loving as Jesus loves gives us the hope to turn pain into forgiveness.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 12
Living Lent, and our faith fully, is not solely about saying ‘no’ to the things that hold us back but also saying ‘yes’ to the love of God that calls us forward.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 11
The journey of faith is always a journey of making our ‘confession’. Wherever we are whenever we turn Godward we cannot but reveal who we are and humbly ask for our faith to be deepened.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 10
When faced with disaster we are tempted to break the rhythm of prayer. The Religious Life teaches us that when things fall apart the answer is to pray more not less regulalrly.
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey – Day 9
To hold on to the One who holds us may mean we need to let go of other loves. However this is only so that once we have learnt to ‘love one another as Christ loves’ we may be able to love everyone better.
A Trysting Place – Day 8 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
In the life of faith there is no room for spiritual one-upmanship which presumes that our work is more important than another’s prayer or our worship more precious than another’s washing-up
Suffolk Vicar 