Category: Spiritual Life
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166 Nourish your soul
The likelihood of life on this tiny insignificant little planet is remote, human life even more so, and yet here I am. My life came as a gift to my parents They were involved in that happening, but not in control of it. They might have intended it, or not They might have hoped for…
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165 Why Jesus had to be abandoned by God
In my previous blog “God plays hide and seek” I wrote that “My experience is that when God appears to have disappeared it has been for one or two reasons: maybe both. Either in order to invite me to deepen my trust in God’s reality and love, despite the seeming lack of evidence. Or to…
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164 God plays hide and seek
I recently came across some words that I’d noted ages ago and then forgotten, as one does! They’re from a Japanese source named as Ryōkan, I’m not sure if that is an individual or a ‘school’ or maybe both. It doesn’t matter, what does is whether what is being said is true or not. I…
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163. God in Community
I have a friend who came to his Christian faith, as a young man, in a fundamentalist brethren church many years ago. He had been going through a painful personal crisis and found this church to be a place of warmth, acceptance and love, which was what he desperately needed. He also came to know…
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162. God’s Vision for the New Year
During Christmas I re-discovered some words that spoke to me and which seemed to belong together. Words of St John of the Cross, that I had unconsciously echoed in “Midwife God this Christmas” “If you want the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say, “I need shelter for the…
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161 Midwife God this Christmas
Above is a Christmas card given to me many years ago by Janet Driver, I recently re-discovered it and made a connection with image below, which might be of a Quaker meeting, but could equally of be wherever two or three are gathered together.
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160. Let your soul be your pilot
Insight came strangely out of what at first seemed unconnected things. In my recent blog ‘158 Rhosilli Bay’ I found myself mulling on how I can stay rooted in what has already been revealed to me by God in my world, while being open to the Great Mystery of the God of a multitude of…
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159 “An Immense World”
The mystery about all these other worlds is even bigger, and its right under our noses. Read this long quotation from ‘An Immense World’ by Ed Yong. “Imagine an elephant in a room. This elephant is not the proverbial weighty issue but an actual weighty mammal. Imagine the room is spacious enough to accommodate it;…
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158 So many other worlds
Early this September I spent a week alone in my friend Andy’s cabin on the Gower coast as I have done for some years. It was a rich and nourishing week as it always has been. On my last night I slept well as I usually do. I woke at 3.40 restless at the prospect…
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157 Who does God know?
I recently wrote a blog entitled ‘An Awesome Fact’ in which I reflected on a wonderful poem by the Polish writer Wislawa Szymborska, in which she draws our attention to how utterly unique we each are at birth. More recently I bought a birthday card for a friend who was celebrating his 70th birthday. It…
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