Tag Archives: Meditation & Prayer
Lent Diary: Easter Saturday 2011
On that first Easter Saturday the disciples must have wondered: What went wrong? Was this whole thing a failure? Did we follow the wrong person? Is love not the way after all? Does love have no chance in this world? Continue reading
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I saw a tree die
I saw a tree die.
Leaves that danced on the branches, stirred into life by the breeze, shivered in the cruel wind and died in the winter chill.
Was that the end? Continue reading
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Life in Desert Places
Only in the desert,
In the empty, uncluttered spaces;
There in the depths of the desert,
The earth will rejoice……
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Wrestling with the past and the future? Wrestle with God.
We wrestle with everything, past, present and future. Will we dare, like Jacob, to wrestle with God instead?
A Meditation on Genesis 32 Continue reading
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Prayer: Law or Grace
Prayer is so often a legalistic battleground: there is the law of praying the right words; the pressure of having enough faith as I pray; the burden of praying for the right things. But is prayer meant to be law? Continue reading
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