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A Prayer for Sunday 27th September 2020
God, so many are struggling. Today we thank you for the help. For medications, herbs, comfort food and nice warm drinks. Thank you. For mobility aids, weighted blankets, swiss balls and hot water bottles. Thank you. For Therapists, Support Workers, Pastoral Carers and darn good friends. Thank you. For your…
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A Prayer for Sunday 20th September 2020
God who creates, who created all things and inspires us to create with our own bodies, be with us now. Breathe new life into our weary souls, that we may be inspired afresh, and renewed to create again. May we reach beyond the limitations of what we know, explore beyond…
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Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Sinaed O’Connor. No Doubt. Whitney. Love ’em all. The tears and the raised glasses of wine as we sing hopelessly out of pitch along to those powerhouses, putting into words and music our feelings of utter despondency and grief. Sugababes. Little Mix. Gloria. Raising the tempo. The high heels and…
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Hildegard and I
Today is the Feast Day of St Hildegard, I picked up from Twitter this morning. I decided to make time to delve into my copy of her Scivias I had bought myself with my birthday spends, a nice reason to do so. Boy am I glad I did. So this…
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A Prayer for Sunday 13th September 2020
Joy. Often fleeting. Often desired. Often missed. Spirit of Joy, stir in our hearts today and always. Lead us to moments of Joy throughout our daily experience, and highlight them as they appear. Raise our eyes from the dimness and the tears, the frustrations and the fear, to the moments…
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But Do You Believe?
It’s been a big week here. My eldest child started High School. With 6 months of lockdown, limited transition, ASC and change being a big trigger, I had been rather dreading it! We had put lots of plans in place, worked mega hard to prepare him, and had lots of…
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Zoomin’ to the Lord
Yesterday I experienced my first ‘Zoom’ church service. It was a 15 year anniversary celebration of a Fresh Expression church my husband had been involved in for some years. Many of the friendships seeded in that church are still important to us now so, despite me hating zoom, being half…
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Prayers for Sunday 6th September 2020
God, we thank you for you for this time of Autumn, as September brings a new cycle of terms, seasons and courses. A time to pause. A time to reflect. A time to consider what truly matters. A time to tune in to what is really driving us. A time…
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Unity but at What Cost?
Another week, another dispute on church twitter, this time about an advert for a position for a leader in a religious organisation stating a genuine occupational requirement for the occupant to be a man. Why? Because there will be people under the remit of the role who cannot take leadership…
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A Prayer for Sunday 30th August 2020
The Spirit is moving. Let us act. God, a new time is coming. Lockdowns are lifting, schools and buildings are reopening, steps toward life as we used to know it continue. Tentatively. Cautiously. With trepidation. The Spirit is moving. Let us act. God, bring us together, give us the strength…
Deconstructing Church 