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Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Tuesday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Tuesday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Tuesday Evening Prayer Blessed be God, holy and undivided Trinity, our hope, our refuge, and our advocate! God, our stronghold, our place of safety: you are our rock and our strength...
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Saturday Morning Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Saturday Morning Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Saturday Morning Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you renew us with your goodness and loving-kindness. New every morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove; Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought...
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Thursday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Thursday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: you open your hands, and fill all things with plenteousness. We bless you, generous God: you show us how to give and to receive. Jesus our brother, you make your presence known among us in the breaking of the bread,.…
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
Rhythms of remembering - Ordinary Time - Sunday Evening Prayer
by SPCK - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild
ORDINARY TIME - Sunday Evening Prayer Blessed are you, O God: in Jesus, crucified and risen, you have shown us your face. We worship you, O Holy One, present to Moses in the burning bush, to Isaiah in the temple,...
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The way of an eagle in the sky
Four Gospels, One Jesus - The way of an eagle in the sky
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
‘The way of an eagle in the sky’ Following John’s story, style and structure The ‘way of an eagle in the sky’ may be hard to understand (Prov. 30.19) but many readers have felt similarly as they have sought to follow the twists and turns, heights and depths of this most subtle ev…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 1. And the lucky winner is...
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 1. And the lucky winner is...
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 1. And the lucky winner is... 1 Corinthians 10.13 I’ll never win the Lottery – because I never buy a Lottery ticket. On the other hand, I didn’t apply for this job of being a carer. Did you? I don’t think anyone applies. It just happens. A…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 14. Just a carer
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 14. Just a carer
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 14. Just a carer Zephaniah 3.17 ‘And what do you do?’ people ask, pretty much as the first question after you’ve been introduced. Do you say, ‘Nothing really’? Or do you find yourself stammering as you search for something to say along the…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 29. Telling it how it is
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 29. Telling it how it is
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 29. Telling it how it is Luke 10.16 Most people, when they stop to ask how things are, usually ask how your loved one is. They seldom ask how you are. But when they do, what do you say? If you’re like most of us, you mutter, ‘I’m okay.’ …
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 34. Thorns and thistles
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 34. Thorns and thistles
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 34. Thorns and thistles Ezekiel 2.6b Life seems to sprout thorns and thistles when you’re responsible for caring for someone else, especially if it wasn’t originally your role to deal with money matters and the like. If you now have to f…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 6. Fit for purpose
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 6. Fit for purpose
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 6. Fit for purpose 1 Corinthians 3.16 When travelling by plane, does anyone pay attention any more to those in-flight demonstrations of where the emergency exits are and where the life-jackets are kept? Flying has become so commonplace…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 7. Forgiveness
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 7. Forgiveness
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 7. Forgiveness Psalm 32.1, 2a It’s weird – I just didn’t recognize what was going on. I look back and wonder why I didn’t see that he was ill. Now that I know better, I feel so sorry – for wasted time while he was in the earliest stages …
Still Caring - Checking it out
Still Caring - Checking it out
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
6 Checking it out Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. (Matthew 7.7) When you’re thinking about, or inspecting, residential care facilities, it is a good idea to be clear about what you are looking for and why...
Still Caring - Dealing with the hassles
Still Caring - Dealing with the hassles
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
21 Dealing with the hassles For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psalm 23.4b, av) Being on the outside is difficult, especially when your informant may not be 100 per cent reliable. This is something I trip over, and come home feeling, ‘I really did not d…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 24. Sharing the load