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 [...]
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Holiness
Posted in Church, Fatfield, Festivals, Spirituality on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Year
Posted in Fatfield, Spirituality, Youth work, random on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So granted I’m a few days late, but I’m a busy lass, so Happy New Year!
So I’ve been thinking about 5 things that I’m grateful for over the last year and 5 things I’m looking forward to for the coming year.
I guess firstly I’m grateful for a house to live in. This time last year I [...]
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 [...]
Liquid Mass
Posted in Church, Liturgy, Spirituality on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spent yesterday at a complusory IME day on Liquid Mass. It wasn’t rocket science, but good to be reminded to be creative. We took part in a communion service in the afternoon, the reading was the beautitudes which was followed by a mediation with lots of images and stats about how broken the world is. [...]
Transformation
Posted in Fatfield, Spirituality on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday I was asked to pray for someone after the midweek service. It was someone who I haven’t really taken much notice of in my time at Fatfield, not delibrately, but they just hadn’t ‘made a scene’ and I (wrongly) had probably thought they wouldn’t be hugely interesting. It was an elderly lady who [...]
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 [...]
Sesame Street
Posted in Church, Spirituality on May 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the books I have just finished reading was Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. Really quite enjoyed it, many people who had read it were put off by the style of his writing but I found it sat with my brian quite well. Lots of jumping around pleased my short attention span and [...]
Inn of the 6th happiness
Posted in Spirituality, telly on April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Had a fairly rough night and morning so this afternoon decided to sit on the sofa and watch some random telly. Ended up watching a film called ‘the Inn of the 6th happiness’ which is about the life of Gladys Alward. I’ve always liked Gladys’ story, she fought to be missionary in China. She was [...]
Free Church Spirituality
Posted in College, Spirituality on March 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This mornings spirituality seminar at college was on the spirituality of the Free Church. As I’m discovering is normal the first half of the thing was based on why it was a bad topic for him to speak on and what is spirituality. It’s getting to the point that you can predict the first half of [...]
