Tag: New Beginnings
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Off the Hook! Celebrating St Andrew’s Day and the New Advent Journey
This Sunday, we celebrate St Andrew’s Day and Advent Sunday, marking the start of the Christmas countdown and the Liturgical New Year. With new beginnings for the Upper Culm Mission Community and personal connections, the message emphasizes Andrew’s role in inclusivity and responding to Jesus’ call, inviting us to renew our commitment.
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We’ve Only Just Begun: Creating My New Online Shop for Retreat Gifts
Ugh! Like many creatives I do not enjoy the technical side of life. I love writing retreats and creating my Retreat in a Box gifts, but have struggled with the fine details of creating my online shop in order to enable more people to experience them!
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The Tide is High
Peter is the only one who is brave enough to speak these words of truth. Words which in previous generations had caused people to be executed, sometimes on mass. Theses are dangerous words. These are words that change lives. When we declare that Jesus is the Messiah, Jesus is God, we are called to respond…
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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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Something New
I’m doing something a bit new, or rather I am formalising something I have been playing with for a while. Interested? Read on….
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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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New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Instead, spend some time listening to your own heart, spend time listening to the God who truly loves you. Perhaps instead of guilting yourself into cutting things out of your life, be loved into identifying and increasing the blessings until there is no room left for those things you would usually seek to eradicate with…
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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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Love is all you need?
This time last year I was preparing to ‘love bomb’ the villages in which I lived and served as the village vicar. I also knew that I would be leaving before the year was out.