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Joys – Simple and Profound

Most of us enjoy daily walks, and at this time of year I enjoy swimming, and there are hardy folks here, who enjoy dawn swimming all the year round … try something new regularly, and share enjoyment with others, all the while praising God – silently or aloud – and giving thanks … [To read more, click on title]

Posted bySt Francis Webguy14th Dec 202522nd Dec 2025Posted inReflectionsTags:birth, christmas, Isaiah, joy

Advent Implications

Advent always promises that something is coming, something new and unexpected. We don’t know when or where or how it might come. But it comes. And it comes to us as a call, an asking, an insistence that we respond. It asks our participation … [To read more, click on title]

Posted bySt Francis Webguy7th Dec 202516th Dec 2025Posted inReflectionsTags:advent, christmas, peace, St Nicholas

Why Zacchaeus?

… yet something compels Zacchaeus. Perhaps a yearning in him for more. Perhaps a tiredness of being shunned by his neighbours. Clearly he is ready for more, because when Jesus calls to him to offer hospitality, he is happy to do so … [To read more, click on title]

Posted bySt Francis Webguy2nd Nov 20257th Nov 2025Posted inReflectionsTags:grace, lost, outcast, Tax collector, Zacchaeus

Prayer Humility

… I am not like the Pharisee. Reading his prayer though … I immediately phrased my own in my mind, “Thank you God that I am nothing like that pompous, self-serving Pharisee!” And no sooner had the thought been thought, I realised that I am in fact no better or different! [To read more, click on title]

Posted bySt Francis Webguy26th Oct 202531st Oct 2025Posted inReflectionsTags:humility, Pharisee, prayer, Tax collector

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