Category: On the move
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Gratitude: Lessons for Today from Jesus’ Parables
We can be grateful for who we are compared with others who seem spiritually weaker than we are, or we can be grateful that God sees us for who we are and shows us love and mercy. We can turn our backs on others, or celebrate with them at the heavenly party Jesus throws.
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Seasons in the Sun
Everything has its time and its place, nothing lasts forever (even if it seems to). We have celebrated birthdays and births and supported each other through grief, and the woes of parenting. Unexpected friendships have been made. It is time to be thankful for the past, and move on to the future.
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Preaching out
On a personal level, finishing my contract as Food Lead has given me more space and time to focus on how I live out my own priestly calling, but on a more public level, and indeed an international stage, there are questions about what a priest should or shouldn’t do.
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She’s Coming Home
I did consider, briefly, becoming a celebrant when my parochial ministry came to an end. It has often been said that I ‘do a good funeral’ (I may have that inscribed on my tombstone), but I would have had to choose between doing so and honouring my ordination in the Church of England.
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A time for everything,
Bringing Compline to an end has not been an easy decision to make. Now though, continuing with Compline has begun to feel as though I am holding onto a past time, remaining tethered to a different time from the one we are now in.
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Discombobulated
Following the newsfeeds, I shared the conversations with fellow clergy regarding protocol: London Bridge had fallen and Operation Unicorn was in place. Without a parish there was, there is, nothing for me to do to mark the death of the Queen. I feel discombobulated. I feel discombobulated, not only because I do not know how…
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Are We in Business?
Building any business during a pandemic is complicated, if not impossible. I haven’t yet made a loss on any retreat, which is good news, I have only had positive feedback, and have even had repeat custom. As a ministry this is good, Godly, growth, but I have to account for it as a business.
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Advent Calendars
The same thing happened last year: on the first of December I present my husband (and the children of course) with a chocolate Advent Calendar. On the second of December I am gifted not one, but two, calendars which have miraculously arrived courtesy of next day delivery: a chocolate calendar and a tea one. As…
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Erasure
Seeing my name removed from the church notice board: just a shadow remaining where the letters had spelled out not just my name by my position in the community. I was quite literally, not just metaphorically, being erased.