Losing touch with God

The story of the golden calf is one I’m very familiar with, and yet something I’d never noticed before suddenly leapt at me off the page when I re-read it recently, and it was this: it all happened “when the … Continue reading →

Change is ok

just needing to jot down thoughts from yesterday’s women’s breakfast in church – things that I found helpful in the talks we heard. change is ok, it’s part of life – yes, I knew that, but hadn’t thought about how … Continue reading →

But you’d get crucified if you do that

Got into an interesting conversation on Google+ about my earlier post – about the scariness of going privately to talk to someone who has upset you, one to one, when you don’t know how they’re going to react. Sure it’s … Continue reading →

Peace making – notes from this evening’s sermon

The text was from Matthew: 5:9 Blessed are the peace makers 5:23-26 If you bring an offering to the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, go and talk to your brother and try to make peace … Continue reading →

a rambling about art/vocation/passion/gifts

I’m reading a novel about a Hassidic Jewish boy who was born with a gift. He is under pressure from his father to turn his back on what his papa regards as “foolishness”, but Asher simply can’t stop drawing, the … Continue reading →

Familiar

I woke up with this song in my head, “we all like sheep have gone astray / lalalalalalala / and the LORD has laid on him the iniquities of us all” – yeah, Isaiah 53, and we sing it in church sometimes, and…

It just hit me: I have become capable of just singing it without being hit by it. The words have become familiar over time. I am not filled with awe and gratitude each and every time I sing this song.

I wake up and you are there

Thank you, God
that you are always there
even when I’m fast asleep
ignoring you
forgetting to take time
to talk to you
going about my day-to-day life
without stopping for a chat with you
even then
when I wake up, I find you there with me.

half-asleep praise

Didn’t get enough sleep last night, and my computer is badly misbehaving, and… I found myself thinking back to that short worship time we had at home group yesterday, each of us offering thanks to God for stuff he has … Continue reading →

No one else

Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. You have – no, you are the key to everything I really need, everything that really matters. And you are the one rock solid factor in my … Continue reading →

Thou Shalt Not Hate

Since writing my recent post about gay sex being sinful, I’ve had lots of responses on Google+ and this has helped me to get a better understanding of one type of reaction I sometimes get when I mention this issue. … Continue reading →