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Positive Person
Remember when I attempted to make an omelette and even my dog wasn’t interested in it? Remember when I had another go and it seemed rather better? Well I thought, hey, I’ll have another go today. It tasted nice enough … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Cooking, Deep Thinking, Love, Music
Tagged beauty, Church Times, coffee, community, Dalai Lama, Life, media, news, omelette, positivity, stereotypes, sunshine lollipops and rainbows, The Art of Happiness, world, youth
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Destiny
A wonderful evening last night after a busy week of college, work, PCC meetings and all sorts. Out with my mum to see a film I was desperate to see and am very glad to have caught. The Lucky One is … Continue reading
Posted in *Favourites*, Bible (passages and study), Christianity, Deep Thinking, Love, Television
Tagged Aquinas, beauty, Breath, calling, college, conscience, creation, dance, destiny, faith, fate, free, freedom, God, happiness, heart, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Kierkegaard, Life, Light, marriage, Matthew 16, nature, peace, power, reality, Religious Studies, shine, sin, soul, tabula rasa, The Lucky One, trust, water, world
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An Invitation
Looking back through my theological reflection notes from 2011, I came across this… The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to do or believe so that we can be saved. Rather, it’s about seeing what … Continue reading
Posted in Book Quotes, Christianity
Tagged faith, God, journey, Life, Marcus Borg, relationship, The Heart of Christianity, truth
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RIP Grandad Jim
Dear Grandad Jim has now passed over. Thinking about our moments together it’s nice to reflect that we had time in his house and then in St Ann’s Hospice to talk and to laugh. Remember when you took me to … Continue reading
Posted in Harry Potter, Love
Tagged Avatar, biscuits, cheese, death, family, fireworks, golf, Grandad Jim, lanterns, Life, Life in a Day, Light, peace, St Ann's Hospice, The Shack
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Food For Thought: Gaia
The perception of existence as a gift given moment by moment by an unseen power generates in us a sense of awe and wonder, of receptivity and thanksgiving. – Luke Timothy Johnson, The Creed First ‘Food For Thought’ post won’t … Continue reading
Posted in Bible (passages and study), Christianity
Tagged Archibald MacLeish, beauty, blessings, change, community, earth, Eden, energy, environment, evolutionary theory, fear, Food For Thought, Gaia, Genesis, James Lovelock, Life, Luke Timothy Johnson, silence, survival of the fittest, world
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Making Mystery the Subject
Remember a few days ago when I wrote about how my college tutors were telling me to stop creating mysteries and solve more of them? (If you don’t click here!) In summary, I was struggling on how to write an … Continue reading
Posted in *Favourites*, Harry Potter, Love, Poetry
Tagged Andrew Marvell, Ashes to Eucalyptus, college, English Literature, go with the flow, God, Greg Garrett, Life, Lisa Simpson, mystery, nerd, One Fine Potion, philosophy, The Simpsons, time, trust, Vincent Clough, William Blake
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Voca me cum benedictus
Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis, voca me cum benedictus. Oro supplex et acclinis, cor contritum quasi cinis, gere curam mei finis. When the accused are confounded, and doomed to flames of woe, call me among the blessed. I kneel with … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Music
Tagged calling, Confutatis maledictis, God, heaven, Hell, Latin, Life, Mozart, Requiem
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Lent 2012: Day Thirty-Three
Hebrews 5:8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. Walked home with a friend after church this morning and he said something that’s stuck in my mind: Jesus died because we needed it, not because the … Continue reading
Posted in *Favourites*, Bible (passages and study), Christianity, Deep Thinking, Love
Tagged beauty, disciples, Fr David Stoter, Gospel of Philip, Hebrews 5, hope, humanity, Jesus Christ, Lent, Lent 2012, Life, lion and lamb, Mary Magdalen, obedience, pain, passion, Passiontide, redemption, sin, suffering, Tracy Ward, truth, wilderness
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Lent 2012: Day Twenty-Five
John 9:17 So they said again to the blind man, ‘What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.’ He said, ‘He is a prophet.’ Tonight’s passage is that of Jesus healing the blind man. And of Jesus … Continue reading
Posted in *Favourites*, Bible (passages and study), Christianity, Deep Thinking
Tagged Anglican Communion, Anglican Covenant, beauty, calling, Christians, Church, diversity, failure, God, healing, Henri J M Nouwen, humanity, humility, Jesus Christ, John 9, law, Lent 2012, Life, Love, peace, priesthood, prophet, respect, Rowan Williams, Sabbath, self, sin, skin, success, The Wounded Healer, vocation, world
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