Category: God

  • Change of Title

    With the events of last Saturday out of the way, a wonderful day, topped completely by presiding on the Sunday – more thoughts on that later… I’m toying with the idea of a change of title.  I remember last year John blogging about reluctance relinquished as I entered the diaconate, however I was still rather…

  • the way, was slightly diverted for a time

      I was distracted from writing by an excellent few days, but I did pen this – almost as it was happening. The course material started this train of thought, focusing on who we are… There is a chapel atop a rocky outcrop near St. Beuno’s, the key to which is normally on the hook…

  • Gardening and the whole God thing

    Gardening in a slow process, one of waiting, watching and feeding. The joy at seeing the first shoots emerge, cleverly engaging the suns potential for their needs is fantastic for the gardener, yet we don’t really do anything except set up the conditions for the seeds to mature into plants. If we forget to water…

  • Prayer

    This is it now for me. I have always struggled with it, never seen the point, never been any good at it, whatever it is supposed to be. The nearest I had got before the song lyrics that follow was Scissor Sisters Comfortably Numb. I’ll let you look up the lyrics for that. There are…

  • Why Reluctant?

    A few people have been asking ‘why reluctant?’ I guess it must be time for a few answers!! Because: I don’t actually really enjoy church! I find much more ‘of God’ in the beauty of nature, in a face, a smile, music, sculpture, in a pint of beer in a pub with a good friend.…

  • Image of God

    During a prison visit this week, the chaplain recounted a story of how he had looked into the eyes of a sex offender and seen the face of Christ!! It had the impact it deserved!

  • Still Waiting?

    To be able to wait, and wait patiently is I think a true gift of God. Yesterday someone said of a prayer to God. ‘God give me patience… But hurry up! So typical of our prayers, expecting what we want immediately, without looking at what it is we are asking for or how we could…

  • Rumi

    Strange that I should be reading from a Islamic Mystic at this time. Seriously though, we (those of us who do care how our fellow travellers are treated) should all read a bit of Islamic material – beats a lot of the the trashy Christian stuff I get to read. Not sure what it is…