Without a doubt one of the greatest highlights of the year for me has been finding faith in the most unexpected of places and in people who say they have no faith or very weak faith.
john oconnor
busy ?
In the midst of the extra demands of this month, the Season of Advent beginning today offers a timely way to stay happy and centred when everything else threatens to steal our healthy perspective.
Advent online
FFF’s Advent Online daily email reflections begin Sunday morning 1 December, the first day of Advent. Make sure you’re signed up, and share this invitation with anyone you think might be interested.
easily pleased
It’s 56 years today since CS Lewis died. One of my favourite Lewis quotes is about the boy making mud-pies: “…We are far too easily pleased”
holy longings
Humans by design design are beings who are filled with desire, longing, hunger, yearning, restlessness. If we do not feel this deep and insatiable thirst then there is something wrong with us
the Father’s home
In these hours don Mario is returning to the home of the Father. Already we miss the beauty of his full-of-God gaze, his eyes alive with enthusiasm.
armistice
We are slow to learn that violence can never deliver the peace we seek.
Bono & Jesus
With U2 playing in Auckland this weekend I’m appreciating the opportunity to savour not only their music but also some of Bono’s inspiring interviews.
Guy Fawkes
We know that future generations will look back on us as primitive for treating explosives as a domestic treat.
remembering
As a preparation for this November month of the Holy Souls you might appreciate this interview on life and death based on my own experience at the time of the deaths of my parents.
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while we sleep
Joseph would have gone to bed in turmoil, yet he woke with clear direction and new energy.
family tree
God uses the good and the bad in each of us to sow seeds and mature and nurture faith
i depend
Earlier today I was in Nazareth House home for the aged and noticed many of the residents using walking frames.
fall in love
Faith is not the addition of a programme to our already full hard-drives, or a reboot, but a new default setting.
identifying Jesus
John of the Cross appreciates the co-existence of pleasure and pain, hope and despair, joy and suffering.