Genesis 1:26 The God said ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground’. niv Suffering is a strangeContinue reading “What were you expecting?”
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Growing in Christ
I sit here looking out on my garden with joy as I see the glorious line of daffodils across my garden wall interspersed with pansies. I remember planting these last year with the hope of seeing a flush of colour along a boring wall and now I have the benefit of that moment of labour.Continue reading “Growing in Christ”
A Mother’s love
How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing.” Matthew 23:37 (niv). Here we are on Mothering Sunday giving thanks to Mum’s. Grandma’s, Aunts, Godmothers, all woman who play a significant role in the lives of others. As with my birthday, todayContinue reading “A Mother’s love”
This is the day the Lord has made……
Psalm 118: 24 …. we will rejoice and be glad in it’. It was my birthday this week. Normally leading up to my birthday I get a little nervous in anticipation of how others are going to celebrate the day. How will the family surprise me? Did they take the gift hints that were sentContinue reading “This is the day the Lord has made……”
A servant’s heart
‘ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, Phil 2:5-6 (esv) I don’t know about you but, I was overwhelmed by the bible’s description of love. I realise that in no way do I reflectContinue reading “A servant’s heart”
Love shows the way
1 Cor 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. We’ve all had a lot to face up to particularly throughout 2020. No matter who we are, we’ve had to change in ways that were impossible for us to contemplate, ways that would end up becoming aContinue reading “Love shows the way”
The how to guide of love
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’, Wouldn’t it be great if there was one easy guide on how to love. It would be easy wouldn’t it? Just follow the rules and everything will go swimmingly. IngrainedContinue reading “The how to guide of love”
Too tough to handle
‘Love your neighbour as yourself’ Mark 12:31 niv The tragedy of living in a broken self-focused world is that the collision course of our lives brings hardships and terrors to the lives of others. For those of us in the world who have been hurt by others, the hurt goes deep into the recesses ofContinue reading “Too tough to handle”
In it together
Romans 13:8 ‘Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law’. Love isn’t something we have to grapple with to find it, to crave it or to demand it. We already have love because we are created in God’s image, the key isContinue reading “In it together”
What’s love got to do with it?
Luke 10:27 He answered ‘Love the Lord your God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’. Love is an interesting concept isn’t it? In our world we speak of love as something romantic, something that makes usContinue reading “What’s love got to do with it?”
