Category: Meditation

Here’s some “inspiration” for the John 5:1-8 Text reading in Sacred Space, I think it’s more of raising questions we need to hear than being very “motivating” – more of helping us to “move on”. “What a strange question Jesus asked: Do you want to be made well? Yet for those who have been sick…

“The hours of darkness, as I’ve come to see them, are less for creation than for recreation. Only God works well in the dark, so I no longer pretend to imitate that part of his modus operandi. If God can end his first week’s work with a seventh day off, why can’t I celebrate a…

From Sacred Space ” You tell me to carry my cross, Lord. You are not telling me to go out looking for the cross, in practices or penances. Rather I find it under my nose. Every encounter that costs me, that rubs off my ego, is part of your plan for me. I start with…

“In prayer we are reminded rather than changed. Prayer helps us to realise what we already know. The Holy Spirit is not an alien invader, but the one who enables us to be ourselves. On Whit Sunday, Peter and the apostles had the same personalities as before Pentecost, but they had the courage to be…

I heard this in a sermon two weeks ago, and stumbled on it through angela (thanks!) WHEN I SAY… When I say… “I am a Christian” I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin’” I’m whispering “I was lost” Now I’m found and forgiven. When I say… “I am a Christian” I don’t speak of this with…

“Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them. Enemies have driven me into your embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth; enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world. Enemies have made me a stranger in worldly realms…

*note: I love this picture that Gareth painted a while ago… I saw him work on it. It was amazing. Later it transformed into a special birthday gift for his Grandfather – “Gong gong”* “God is big enough to handle all the mixture in our lives, and he will purify the motives. And, if God…

“The worst illusion to which the theologian can fall prey is imaginary certainty.” —Gerhard Ebeling, The Study of Theology (London: Collins, 1979), p. 131. (via Bill Myers)

This is a good one linked from The Complex Christ: “Do you know the difference between commitment and involvement? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed.” ~ Martina Navratilova, interviewed in 1982. My prayer is that as we’ve passed the last sunday of Advent moving towards Christmas .. we…

I’m facing reality… advertisers flood our world – we’re bombarded with 101 or can I say 1001 messages… but somehow the cross symbolized here through a gift from my African friend (where kids transform bullets used to kill to a cross that redeems) reigns more supreme over any distraction advertisements may or may not give…