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The new song we would sing on Christmas morning is more a lullaby than a national anthem, it is a quiet, thankful song that longs for peace and rest and comfort, it is a song that sings of grace. more» -
I will not talk about the light that is everywhere, how far you have to travel for the sky to be completely black (and even then there are stars, there is the moon’s borrowed brightness). more» -
It is a weird experience, being pregnant with twins...It is a very humbling experience, learning about the wisdom held deep in your body. More than that, it was my first really visceral experience of co-creation with God. more» -
God, my God of birth pangs
and pain that finds release... more» -
Manuka flower honey
devotion of bees
sweet wine
rosemary
frankincense
scenting the drowsy air. more» -
Into this world, this demented inn,
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited. more» -
Joy – a strange word with which, from time to time, I’ve had a precarious relationship.
Possibly because it’s my given name. There have been times I knew in my deepest being the name didn’t fit who and what I experienced myself to be. more» -
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Tenderly hold those who grieve,
those who worry about loved ones more» -
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There are years when the Christmas spirit is hard to come by, and it’s in those seasons when I’m so thankful for Advent. Consider it a less flashy but still very beautiful way of being present to this season. more» -
Look upon your church and its pastors
in this season of hope
which runs so quickly to fatigue
and in this season of yearning
which becomes so easily quarrelsome. more» -
We live in a world in which bigger and better define our expectations for much of life. We have become so focused by super-size, super stars, and high definition that we tend to view life more» -
The season of Advent
means there’s something on the horizon
the like of which we have never seen before. more» -
In the holy family, particularly in this time of refugees and advent, we see how important one small family is, one small child is, one small collection of people. In light of the complexities of more» -
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Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but
still nothing is as shining as it should be
for you. more» -
Over these days, quiet remembrance and wreath laying ceremonies at war memorials throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world are taking place.
The eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the date when hostilities ceased on the Western Front in the war to end all wars is also remembered. more» -
In the beginning were the leaves,
and the leaves were fragile and beautiful,
and the leaves were on the tree. more» -
Newman's canonisation is important to Anglicans because he was a bridge between communions, transferring a Catholic vision to worldwide Anglicanism and then bringing some of his Anglicanism with him when he became a Catholic. more» -
God, help me to let go
unkind words said to me
or about me,
unkind (but often very clever) words
I have rehearsed... more» -
A Review by the Rev. Jennie Hogan
A theologian, Nicola Slee offers bold, humble, and poetic perspectives on the sabbath. The subtitle of her book emphasises the difficult work of sloughing away our resistance to rest. The American more»
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