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Reflection: Love one another
Reflection: Love one another
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Love one another “Love one another as I have loved you.” What a challenge Does that mean I’ve got to love my enemies? Does that mean I’ve got to love my political opponents? Does that mean I’ve got to love those whose opinions I can’t tolerate? Does that mean I’ve got…
Eggs and Ashes Book - A Passover Meal for Thirteen
Eggs and Ashes Book - A Passover Meal for Thirteen
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Reflection - Meditation A Passover meal for thirteen How come it’s always me that gets to lay the table and never the boys? A Passover meal for thirteen, mum says, in our upstairs room; ten courses, best dishes, two jars of wine, and they might need a waitress. Job for you, Naomi…
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
Eggs and Ashes Book - Palm Sunday Evening
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer - Meditation - reflection Palm Sunday evening This time there will be no flight into Egypt. This donkey has too much to carry, too far. The shadows wait for me: around the table at Passover, among those in high places, in the condemned cell... By Josie Smith Taken from Egg…
Imagining the Lectionary: an unappealing prospect (Lent 2A)
Imagining the Lectionary: an unappealing prospect (Lent 2A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: an unappealing prospect (Lent 2A) Reflection accompanying image “an unappealing prospect” or "same image in colour" "Take it from me: Unless a person is born from above, it's not possible to see what I'm pointing to—to God's kingdom." (John 3:3) T…
Reflection: Royalty
Reflection: Royalty
by Marjorie Dobson
Psalm 99 Reflection: Royalty In our so-called civilised world, evil leaders rule with cruelty, violence and a total disregard for the welfare of their people. Other, manipulative people prefer to be the power behind their leader’s throne and use cunning, political scheming, bribe…
Imagining the Lectionary: Open Hands (Epiphany)
Imagining the Lectionary: Open Hands (Epiphany)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Open Hands (Epiphany) Reflection accompanying images “Hands that offer hands that receive ” and “Hands that offer hands that receive bw ” The vision of God's glory which we celebrate at Epiphany is a story of extravagant open-handedness which brings the …
Reflection on Psalm 124
Reflection on Psalm 124
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection on Psalm 124 One small boy – nine years old, perhaps – stood proudly to say the psalm he’d learned by heart and proclaimed those words, ‘If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when our enemies attacked us, then we would have been swallowed alive …’ And all tho…
Reflection on Proverbs 31: 10-31
Reflection on Proverbs 31: 10-31
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection on Proverbs 31: 10-31 ‘A good woman is hard to find,’ they say. I’m not surprised, if you look at that picture they paint in Proverbs. It sets feminism back into the Dark Ages and even caps Shirley Conran’s Superwoman for imposing impossible demands on a woman’s time a…
Reflection/Poem: Job
Reflection/Poem: Job
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/Poem: Job It’s bad enough when so-called friends pose difficult-to-answer questions, but when God begins to ask them of us, what possible answer can we give? So Job, having faced the onslaught of his not-so-comforting comforters, now faces God, who has a whole string o…
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.…
Reflection: The Fear of the Lord
Reflection: The Fear of the Lord
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: The Fear of the Lord ‘The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord?’ Doesn’t sound to me like the foundation for a good relationship. Unless you’re getting ‘wised up’ to the fact that the Boss is in charge and you’d better behave yourself, or else! But that won’t make …
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom?
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/reflection: What happened to wisdom? Whatever happened to the idea of the wisdom of age? Why is it that when I shop, or sit on a train, or walk through the town, I am treated as invisible by anyone under the age of thirty? Even in church I can be considered as irrelevant, si…
Imagining the Lectionary- Pentecost Mashup
Imagining the Lectionary- Pentecost Mashup
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Pentecost Mashup Reflection accompanying images: “Can these dry bones live”, “Creator spirit”, “Spirit 1” and “Spirit 2” Can these dry bones live This ancient question, arising out of the harrowing history of God's people in Exile and voiced by God thr…
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul Reaches Athens
Acts for Everyone Part 2 - Paul Reaches Athens
by SPCK - N T Wright
Paul Reaches Athens Acts 17.10-21 There seems to be an increasing fashion in the sporting world, especially in sports that originated in Europe, for ‘World Cup’ contests, and similar events organized in geographical regions. Unless you are a very avid sports fan, these events see…
Reflection: Impossibilities
Reflection: Impossibilities
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Impossibilities When Alice went Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen told her that in her youth she had managed to ‘believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ She was an amateur when compared with Abram, or Abraham, as he’d become known when his…
Reflection/Drama: Psalm 72 for today
Reflection/Drama: Psalm 72 for today
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/drama: Psalm 72 for today (can be read by several voices, but will work best with at least two) ‘He will judge in righteousness. He will defend the afflicted. He will save the children of the needy. He will crush the oppressor. He will be like showers watering the eart…
Reflection/poem: Crazy man
Reflection/poem: Crazy man
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/poem: Crazy man Couldn’t find time or space to eat, but he didn’t seem to care. People thought he was crazy, but that didn’t seem to bother him at all. Religious people said he was the devil incarnate, but he knew that wasn’t true. So what did Jesus do? What he did bes…
Poem/meditation: Offering sacrifice