Author: Henry Morgan
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105. Our temptations
January 2022 We are each called to incarnate some aspect[s] of God in our life, that is our calling, our vocation. It will be what brings us fully alive as a son or daughter of God. Moreover whatever we incarnate of God, being ‘of God’, will be eternal. It will be at least part of…
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104. Spiritual conversations
June 2022 I’ve been blessed with two very good spiritual directors over the years, but I struggled when the last one died. It was probably not a bad idea to have a break for a while, but finding a new one, someone who would encourage, stimulate and challenge me spiritually, proved depressingly difficult. Then, one evening,…
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103. A Year of Wonder
January 2022 I’ve become a grateful fan of Clemency Burton-Hill and her book ‘A Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Everyday’ ever since I bought a copy several years ago. In it she offers a piece of music for every day of the year, and a brief commentary that helps to open up the piece…
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102. Wise men, wise women
January 2022 As one year comes to an end and a new one begins there is much to feel depressed and ashamed about, and little to lift our spirits, both in the world at large and in the behaviour of our own Government. “Where has God been in all this?”, we might ask, “Where is…
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101. Christmas is Coming
December 2021 The culmination of Advent with the coming of Christmas calls us once again to celebrate the birth of Jesus. John’s Gospel talks of Jesus existing with God from the beginning, before being incarnated as a human being, and of then returning to be with God after His death & resurrection. This is the…
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100. An Advent Story
November 2021 A small village nestled high up in the mountains had developed over the centuries a series of traditions by which they marked Advent every year. All the men in the village used to dress up as shepherds and bring symbols of their trades to the little village church, as gifts for the Christ-child.…
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99. The Raising of Lazarus: Part 3
June 2021 There is another question that John’s story of Lazarus raised for me. Jesus is described as loving Martha, Mary & their brother Lazarus. When He arrived at Lazarus tomb John tells us that Jesus wept, such that the onlookers said “how dearly He must have loved him”. John makes it clear that Jesus loved Lazarus…
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98. The Raising of Lazarus: Part 2
June 2021 Mulling on the stories of Jesus Resurrection appearances in all four Gospels a number of themes emerged: [1] Those who go looking for the dead body of Jesus don’t find Him. [2] They mostly find its absence frightening. [3] The Risen Jesus appears unexpectedly to others who were not looking for Him, although often they don’t…
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97. The Raising of Lazarus: Part 1
June2021 I marked Easter this year by mulling on the Resurrection stories in the Gospels, and found myself led from those in John’s Gospel to John’s account of the raising of Lazarus, where I was struck by both the similarities and the differences between the stories of Jesus’ Resurrection and that of Lazarus. We see a…
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96. Top up or bottom down
May 2021 I was talking with a friend recently, and he mentioned the vision that Julian of Norwich had in which she saw God as a Lord and human beings as the Lord’s servants. I had to admit that while I understand that image of God in my head it doesn’t engage with either my…
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