Ok so it’s a little late, but it’s meant with love. I’ve never been quite so exhausted through a Holy Week and Easter before but for the most part it was wonderful. I need time to think through lots of it but for now, here are a few highlights.
The Maundy Thursday evening service. This service holds [...]
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Happy Easter
Posted in Church, Fatfield, Festivals on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Holiness
Posted in Church, Fatfield, Festivals, Spirituality on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I often feel I need to start posts by apologising to Ben. I’m sorry I don’t write often enough and I honestly would like to write more and so therefore your gentle harassment to get me to write is welcome even if it doesn’t always get the best response! So apology over.
As ever in St [...]
Posted in Church, Fatfield, Festivals, Spirituality on December 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So Christmas is about here. The last few months have been very crazy. We’ve seen God do some great things and wept when we haven’t seen the answers to prayer we’ve longed for.
The prayer course went really well, we’ve had some encouraging feedback and are looking forward to running it again in March. It was [...]
Easter
Posted in Church, Fatfield, Festivals on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well my first Easter in Fatfield has been and gone. I think I’ve enjoyed most of it! I certainly missed the silence of all the vigils that I’d grown used to Gateshead. I would have never said that I particulary enjoyed the vigils whilst I was there although I can pinpoint some specific significant moments that [...]
Epiphany Blessing
Posted in Fatfield, Festivals, Liturgy on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During this mornings worship I wrote a blessing to use at the end of the service. A few people have asked for a copy so I thought I’d put it on here. Brett was preaching so a lot of it is his words moulded into a blessing.
May we be blessed as we journey, lifting up our [...]
Reflections
Posted in Church, Fatfield, Festivals, Gateshead, Spirituality on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I realise it is a little predictable to be in reflection mode at this time of year, but sometimes (as my therapist said this year) it’s ok to be predictable.
I guess it would be fair to say this year has been a hard year, coloured by so many changes and uncertainties that in the end [...]
Christmas babies
Posted in Festivals, Poetry, Spirituality on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Cheryl wrote this and it made me weep. Perhaps because it is too close to home, but it felt like it needed shared.
pray peace
peace does not always come in the shape of a baby
in a season that abounds with fertile miracles
pray peace for those for whom every breathless, wondrous mention
of babies born
will bring only unspeakable [...]
Apologies
Posted in Fatfield, Festivals on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry that the bakery has been a little quiet over the last few months. Fatfield is still going well although there is still no house for me to make home yet. One of the reasons it’s been so quiet is my thoughts have been too scattered to make much public sense. A large part [...]
La Fura des Baus
Posted in Festivals, Gateshead, random on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday night I went to see La Fura des Baus on Spillers Wharf in Newcastle. They are the people who had been part of designing the opening cermemony for the Barcelona olympics and so for a fiver I thought it would be a good night out. It was certainly interesting! I hadn’t investigated the [...]
Happy Pentecost
Posted in Church, Festivals on May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This was part of our celebrations for Pentecost this morning. Any excuse for playing with the fairy lights!
For some reasons the pictures on my phone have come out better, so will try and put some on later in the week
