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Illness and Incarnation
My feet have been up for most of today. I had some minor surgery yesterday, and if I stand for too long, my bruised big toes start to throb. Did Jesus’ side wound throb when he had walked for too long? When he reached Emmaus was he holding on to the flesh above his hip,…
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A Prayer for Sunday 10th January 2021
What a messy world we live in God. Yet as the snow falls, what beauty I see. As we reflect on a week of violence, shocked by scenes of terrorism, angered that it has not been called out as such, and dismayed at the injustice our brothers and sisters arrested under the banner of Black…
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A Prayer for Sunday 3rd January 2021
God, Spirit, Jesus, bring us life at the dawn of this new year. As we look forward to better times while acknowledging we are still living through very tough days; God, Spirit, Jesus, bring us life at the dawn of this new year. As we hold on to you as our hope, when there may…
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The Stark Reality
One of the blessings I find each year after the chaos of Christmas is time to read the pile of books I have generally accrued that year. This Boxing Day I pulled ‘Bad Theology Kills’ (one of my birthday stack) off the shelf and idly began flicking, but by page two my attention was sharply…
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A Prayer for Christmas Day 2020
Welcome, Jesus, as a babe you came. Today we remember. We pause and remember the gift of hope, packaged in a simple child. When all is too big, complex and frustrating, help us to look for the simple hope, and the hope of the small and simple. We pause and remember the gift of beauty,…
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A Prayer for Sunday 20th December 2020
Light brings hope in the darkness. We wait for that light now, o God. Light reveals what was always there but we could not see. We seek that revelation, o God. Light warms the space it touches and blesses it with life. Enliven us now, o God. Light lifts what we see from a static…
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