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A Pattern for Prayer

You’ll realise by now I’ve become interested in older hymns recently.  The messages of hope and comfort, challenge and quiet revolution they include can be inspirational.  Methodist tradition has it that our hymn books should also be our prayer books.  I can go along with that. One of my favourite prayer/hymns is “For the Healing…

I will not rush

I came across this reworking of psalm 23 by a Japanese Christian, Toki Miyashiro and thought it would be good to share here: The Lord is my pace-setter; I shall not rush; He makes me stop and rest for quiet intervals. He provides me with images of stillness which restore my serenity, He leads me…

Family Ties

When my husband and I attended parent’s evenings at my elder son’s school, the teachers always said as we approached, “I don’t have to ask whose parents you are.” My son is the spitting image of his father, in fact it is only because one photo is in black and white and the other in…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 14th May 2023

6th Sunday of Easter                        Year A                                                             14th May 2023 Lectionary Readings; Acts 17 v22-31; Psalm 66 v8-20; 1 Peter 3 v13-22; John 14 v15-21. We are not orphans, we are children of a loving God. In the passage from Acts, Paul is telling his sceptical audience that there is only one true…

Vocations in Life

Almost fifty four years ago, I sat with the rest of Mr Slater’s class at Calverley Parkside school and we watched the live broadcast of the investiture of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in North Wales, it was one of the most memorable occasions in my childhood, we didn’t have a…