Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 28 – Saturday after 4th Sunday of Lent To Read: “But it’s too small for two of us,” Said Christopher Robin sadly. “Three of us with Piglet.” “That makes it smaller still. Oh, Pooh Bear, what shall we do?” And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend… Continue reading Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 28
My fear of God is deeply ingrained and I weep that some ministers continue to preach judgement and rejection instead of welcome and redemption.
Like the Grinch we must learn that friendship and joy is never about possessions and gifts and stuff, but about each other. When we finally realise that all our hearts will ‘Grow three sizes’.
Our brokenness, our emptiness, regardless of how we came to be broken and empty, are exactly the gifts our Beloved requires of us. Nothing else is needed.
This task of welcome is not easy. Tiggers will continue to be bouncy and some will wonder if they have ”been strengthened quite enough.”
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
Too often the ones who should be ‘making plain the way of the LORD’ are cluttering it with Points of Order, procedural motions, and a general antagonism towards their siblings.
Too often we find ourselves so busy and, to be honest, self-involved, that we can’t stop and check that everyone is really all-right.
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
Suffolk Vicar 