Category Archives: Prayer

Some times it is just about holding space. In the flow of my day, the back and forth of conversation with God as I tend to those in our home I think of those I know ministering, of those preparing God’s word, of those rejigging this Sunday because of positive tests, of those looking outContinue reading “Holding Space”

There has been plenty of discussion out there around one rule for us, one rule for them. There is real pain behind the stories of those who did as they were asked, made raw once more by revelations of leaders actions. As I have been reading Amos these mornings I am reminded once more thatContinue reading “Heading into the year as one body”

The momentum of Advent, 12 days of Christmas and Epiphany are behind us and its all too easy to want to simply hibernate. Activity feels beyond us, bleary eyes stare back at us in the mirror. Isn’t new year about new starts but nothing feels new, all feels jaded and as if we are walkingContinue reading “Sometimes praying is simply living each day.”

As the clock draws close to midnight in the first places around the world churches will open their doors, their live stream to celebrate the Christ Mass, to celebrate the One who comes fully divine and fully human. Who comes to bring a peace. Not man made peace but lasting peace. As our eldest justContinue reading “Midnight Mass”

Lots of connections going on in my head and heart this Advent as I let Philippians 2:5-11 be my unexpected Advent passage this year and allow the passages from my devotional to interact reminding me how very much alive and at work God’s word is. This morning I was reading John 1, Jesus is theContinue reading “A whole year of unfolding and waiting and remembering and celebrating to be done.”

Growing up I was taught that we could go straight to God ourselves, that we didn’t need anyone to stand between us and God. I was struck this morning reading in Hebrews 9 where Jesus is called our mediator. The lesson I grew up with was only partial right. We don’t need another human toContinue reading “The Peace of Christ, our mediator.”

My advent reading for today was on Rev 5:5 where Jesus is called the Lion of Judah. As I have studied lions with our children and learnt more about the difference between the male and female lions I have pondered and felt disconcerted by this image a number of times. The reading also brought meContinue reading “Who are we looking to?”

This morning my reading for Advent took me to Rev 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega. Christ is all sufficient. I was again drawn back to my Advent passage of Phil 2:5-11 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God,    did not considerContinue reading “Holding a space”

Philippians 2:5-11 (NIV) “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God,    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;rather, he made himself nothing    by taking the very nature of a servant,    being made in human likeness.And being found in appearance asContinue reading “Advent happens in the midst of life”