Category: hope
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The Refuge
It has been a while since we posted on this blog. Sometimes it is hard to come back to something – you feel like you need to write something important or crazy to recapture the attention of the readers. I tried writing something a couple of days ago, but it simply didn’t flow. It was…
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Meeting Jesus on the Road
In August Helen was privileged to be able to preach at King’s Church, Birmingham for the first time. She was given the amazing passage of Jesus meeting the disciples on the road to Emmaus – Luke 24:13-35 as her focus. Here is a link to the audio on the King’s Church website: https://www.kingschurchbirmingham.org/audio/kingofthejews/meeting-jesus-on-the-road Photo by…
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Letting go
As we come to the end of the year, it is important to reflect on all that has taken place. For some, there will be joyful memories which we can celebrate and thank God for. But for many of us, this year will have been difficult and not at all what we had hoped or…
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The breaking of the wave
2020 has been a tough year for so many reasons. Tonight we leave it and move into 2021. As I was praying this morning, I felt like 2020 was a bit like the dying part of a wave where all the water is dragged back and sucked up before the new wave breaks. It has…
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Allowing ourselves to hope
“It taught me to hope,” said he, “as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.” Mr. Darcy – Pride and Prejudice” ― Jane Austen A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage,That never knew the summer woods:…
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Reaching for hope
For years I have been bleeding. A constant dirtiness, impurity, shame. The kind of dirtiness that cuts me off from family, friends and loved ones. I cannot come close in case I damage them somehow and I am afraid. I have tried everything to get clean – washing, scrubbing, doctors, but still it remains and…
Reflected Light 