our meagre offerings become ‘all we have ever wanted, with much to spare
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garden of life
with a bit of luck and some water the tomatoes and lettuces will be salads before Christmas.
holey roofs
If I have closed all doors and locked all windows, even then God will find a way – even through the roof!
hungry human hearts
I imagine that they were already pretty dissatisfied with fishing, tax-collecting and sitting up trees.
very near
And if you are nearby and free tomorrow bring a friend or two and join us for the retreat day.
freedom for
And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace
Christ the King
Love casts out fear. But so do several other things — ignorance, alcohol, passion, presumption, and stupidity.
freedom is…
These things pass – food poisoning flows with puns – and symptoms have eased
these shoes
People’s shoes could tell of roads walked through the ups and downs of life
forks, worms & flowers
the first game we played with a rag ball, the worms we collected in a shoebox…
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grounded in God
Mary’s certainty was grounded not in human evidence but in divine relationship.
expectations
My expectations are most often projections of my own fears.
the story
I know some great storytellers and could listen to some of them for hours.
flesh & blood
a thought today for the poor deacon or priest who has to read a list of near-unpronounceable OT names
questions questions
Jesus’ school teachers would also have used this Socratic (question and dialogue) method