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Times and Seasons - Now the poppy petals flutter
Times and Seasons - Now the poppy petals flutter
by Andrew Pratt
Now the poppy petals flutter The updraft twisted yellow mist, ominous weave of gaseous death. And now the poppy petals flutter. Another updraft, drifting, lifting, each single petal turning end over end. Continues... Andrew Pratt (born 1948) Words © 2014 Stainer & Bell Ltd, Londo…
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 - Be Prepared
Still Caring - Be Prepared
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
5 Be prepared At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. (Matthew 25.1) We often battle on too long, so a crisis erupts and our loved one suddenly needs to be admitted to residential care. When this happen…
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 - 13. It hurts
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 13. It hurts
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
ONE DAY AT A TIME Meditations for Carers 13. It hurts Psalm 69.29, 33, GN Nobody warns you that disability or degenerative illness – whichever it is you’re dealing with – hurts. Your loved one who is actually enduring the condition may feel no direct pain – but you do. What you f…
The Post Evangelical - 8 Is the Bible the word of God?
The Post Evangelical - 8 Is the Bible the word of God?
by SPCK - Dave Tomlinson
8 Is the Bible the word of God? Our purpose here is straightforward: what is a post-evangelical view of the Bible? I think it is fair to say that post-evangelicals have mixed feelings on the subject. They have an underlying respect for the Bible, and in my experience they are kee…
Barefoot Prayers - The Voice of Prayer
Barefoot Prayers - The Voice of Prayer
by SPCK - Stephen Cherry
An introduction in three parts The voice of prayer Prayer is an extremely common human activity. As John Ellerton put it in a famous hymn, ‘the voice of prayer is never silent / nor dies the strain of praise away’.1 It takes myriad forms and transpires in countless contexts. Yet …
Reflection: What happens when
Reflection: What happens when
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: What happens when...? When, through our greed, the earth’s natural resources are exhausted, are we so arrogant as to expect that our human brains will have solved the problems of energy, water and food supplies in a way that is totally sustainable? When, through our s…
Reflection/Meditation: My Father’s Way
Reflection/Meditation: My Father’s Way
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection/Meditation: My Father’s Way Many years ago a story was told by the Hebrew people – indeed it is still being told today. It sounds something like this: ‘My father was a wandering Aramean; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien and there became a great natio…
Meditation/Monologue: The New Jerusalem
Meditation/Monologue: The New Jerusalem
by Andrew Pratt
Meditation/Monologue: The New Jerusalem Was it on a wire, like some great Peter Pan on a west end stage? Or did they use computer graphics? Perhaps it was a dream or some ancient painting? It just seems surreal! 'I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven f…
One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers - 15. Keeping your head above water