A Christmas Wishlist from Jesus – A Sermon
If Jesus had a choice as to which present He received at His birth would he have chosen Gold, Frankinsence and Myrrh?
If Jesus had a choice as to which present He received at His birth would he have chosen Gold, Frankinsence and Myrrh?
Our wounded Lord calls us to tend the wounds of others and we cannot, we dare not, betray them for the sake of Him who was betrayed by His own followers.
The Bible must be at the heart of our faith however we must remember that its purpose is to point us towards God and not be an end in itself.
If we reduce our faith to a matter of which coins belong to which part of our life we run the risk of separating our life into sacred and secular. We are called to be a holy people every moment of our lives not only on Sundays.
Every impulse towards returning happiness is of God.
Tell her if you will that sorrow
Need not come in vain;
Tell her that the lesson taught her
Far outweighs the pain.
In a world torn asunder and being destroyed by greed and the seeking after status at the expense of those we would demean the only antidote we have is generosity
To live ‘Sine Proprio’ without possessions is about more than the ‘stuff’ withe which we surround our lives. It is a call to ‘Let Go and Let God’. Only as we do this can life be re-born.
Many times what we fancied was hurtful has been of the greatest service; what we flinched from has made us happier….
WE mustn’t be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot, we must wait to be guided.