I am from the Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter Body of Christ I am from earliest memories of Latin Masses in Jamshedpur, India not understanding a word, and then, English masses, I did understand, but was bored by, and Post-Vatican … [Continue reading]
The Will of God Always Leads Us to a Larger Place
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” At … [Continue reading]
In which Driveness & Scarcity Thinking is the Voice of the Oppressor, & the Enemy of the People
I am reading Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly. She quotes Global activist Lynne Twist who, in her book The Soul of Money, refers to scarcity as “the great lie”. Twist writes, “For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is, “I … [Continue reading]
Julia Cameron’s The Writing Diet
I am reading Julia Cameron’s The Writing Diet. Cameron says we over-eat and gain weight when “something is eating us.” A lot of emotion gets displaced onto food. We use food to feed our emotions and our minds and spirits, instead of our physical … [Continue reading]
A Very Long Pregnancy: Or, How to Live in the Land of Unfulfilled Promises and Deferred Dreams
The early chapters of Abraham’s story make painful reading. Again and again, through the decades God promises him a child: At the great oak of Moreh at Shechem, when he was 75; at Bethel, when he lets his nephew Lot have the more fertile … [Continue reading]
St. Albans Church, Odense, Funen, Denmark.
Well, Roy is working on the gargantuan task of organising 24 years of photographs of our lives together. Here are some images from a cool Church we visited last summer in Denmark. Irene broke her arm, and was shattered not be going to her Adventure … [Continue reading]
On the Cwmbran Outpouring (or the 2013 Welsh Revival), The Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit & Waterfalls
The Celts called the Holy Spirit “Ah Geadh-Glas,” The Wild Goose. And if you wanted to encounter this wild goose? Well, you absolutely could stay in your living room, leave the windows open, and hope he’ll fly in. The world (and Scripture) is full … [Continue reading]
Bodnant Gardens, Wales, on a Perfect Late Spring Day
(Guest post by Roy Mathias) We were lucky to have perfect weather on our visit to Bodnant Gardens. Bodnant Garden is on a hill. At the top is the house, then on the terrace below is the Italian Garden, below that the large pond, below that the … [Continue reading]
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