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I put the dark on
I put the dark on
by Michaela Youngson
First Published in The Weaver, The Word and Wisdom Based on Psalm 139, a reflection I put the dark on! I could hear my daughter playing with the light-pull in my bedroom. After a few minutes her smiling face peered round the bathroom door as she announced, ‘It’s all right, Mummy,…
Drama: A big question
Drama: A big question
by Marjorie Dobson
Exodus 34: 29-35 Drama: A big question (A dialogue between mother and child. Identity can easily be changed to any related adult) Mum, who’s that man? He’s a special man, dear. Why is he special Mum? Because he’s our leader, love. What’s his name, Mum? Is that special too? All ou…
Reflection on 1 John 5: 1-6 Setting rules
Reflection on 1 John 5: 1-6 Setting rules
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection on 1 John 5: 1-6: Setting rules A parent who loves a child sets out sensible rules of conduct, so that the child can learn to grow and live to love and care for others. The child who loves the parent obeys the rules - most of the time – and learns through experience...…
Poem/Prayer: God’s children
Poem/Prayer: God’s children
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Prayer: God’s children We are God’s children, led by the Spirit, knowing that we can come to a loving parent with total confidence that we are offered love and care. We are not slaves, held in chains by a cruel owner, but allowed to fly free, guided only by the principles an…
Reflection/meditation: Every parent
Reflection/meditation: Every parent
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/Meditation: Every parent Every parent recognizes the surprise of finding out that their child has grown into an individual person with a mind, will and personality that may bear no resemblance whatsoever to the parents that created the baby they cherished and nurtured.…
Poem: Regret
Poem: Regret
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Regret A child who becomes an enemy is still a child. And only the most hard-hearted of parents would not feel some measure of regret and sorrow when the death of that child is reported. The ties of love, even though shredded by conflict and anger, leave threads of emotion …
Mother us, father us, parent all nations
Mother us, father us, parent all nations
by Andrew Pratt
Mother us, father us, parent all nations, carefully, lovingly, listen we pray. Knowing our poverty, sharing humanity, sisters and brothers, we follow your way. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: STEWARDSHIP Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 23/4/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, ww…
Job for Everyone - Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
Job for Everyone - Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Where Could I Go But to the Lord? Job 5: 1-27 The story goes that sometime in the 1930s a Mississippi music teacher and Baptist deacon named James Coats was at the bedside of one of his neighbors, whose name was Joe Keyes. Joe was dying, and James asked him if he knew where he wo…
Drama/Dialogue: Prayer problems
Drama/Dialogue: Prayer problems
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama/Dialogue: Prayer problems 1 We will now pray the prayer that Jesus taught us, the modern version – ‘Our Father in heaven’ 2 Hang on a minute! You can’t go on calling God, ‘our father’, it’s not politically correct. 1 What do you mean? Political correctness hasn’t got anythi…
Hymn: Heirs of Christ and God's own children
Hymn: Heirs of Christ and God's own children
by Andrew Pratt
Heirs of Christ and God's own children, God our parent, yet a friend, Abba, we still pray before you: source of freedom without end. Slaves no longer: liberation, free to serve and free to pray, free to live our lives for justice, Verse 3 follows © Andrew Pratt 14/5/2012 Tune: …
Hymn: Vulnerable presence of God in creation
Hymn: Vulnerable presence of God in creation
by Andrew Pratt
Vulnerable presence of God in creation, fragile, yes broken, in order to be; cracking the egg of existence in birthing, mothering God who is setting us free. Verses 2-3 follow Tune: STEWARDSHIP Metre: 11.10.11.10 Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 16/7/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, Lo…
Love that breaks the heart of God
Love that breaks the heart of God
by Andrew Pratt
Love that breaks the heart of God, love of Israel, you or me, love that taught a child to walk, has the power to set us free. Loving kindness now ignored, people turn their backs on grace, turn away from faith and hope, fear to see God's loving face. Verse 2 follows Tune: ABERYST…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 20 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 20 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 20 Mark 9: 30-37 Gaze on the disciples, a ragged band trudging along and always on the move. So often they are confused by their leader, yet always in awe of him and often afraid to ask, afraid to look the fool. Now he’s made that frightening prediction about ending on a v…
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 16 Year B
Gazing on the Gospels Year B - Proper 16 Year B
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 16 John 6: 56-69 Gaze on Simon Peter. He is standing near to Jesus, and is spokesman yet again for the disciples. He is the first to speak, yet again perhaps too readily. Hear his exclamation: ‘To whom shall we go?’ Listen to his tone of voice. Is he dogmatic or pleading, …
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