This has been a very different, very messy and very hard year, Covid 19 sweeping through and changing our world, for adults and children alike. So scary … we didn’t see it coming. So many people throughout the world have died, so many families now without work. All this frightens a lot of us doesn’t it? Part of us takes comfort that we live in New Zealand, far away from trouble spots, but deep down we realize just how fragile this bubble we find ourselves in is. There is nowhere to hide from this deadly disease. The news seems all bad. But is it really?
Category Archives: Reflections
Mary Hears from God
Gabriel tells Mary that she will get pregnant and give birth to the Son of God! She wonders, how?, as she is a virgin: and she is troubled: but her next emotional reaction is humility. She is humbled by the honour bestowed on her by God, and then full of joy. Not all unmarried mothers feel joy when they discover they are pregnant, so …
True Inspiration Requires Right Action
… you will recall the old word “Comforter” was used to describe the work of the Holy Spirit. Have you seen the Bayeux Tapestry portraying Norman William’s conquest of England in 1066? William is prodding his sword into the buttocks of the soldiers in front, and the caption is “King William comforteth his troops”.
The Holy Spirit comforts us! That is, prods and stirs us to action!
Advent Reflection: Beginnings
… here we have his opening sentence “The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”
Some scholars now think this is more like a title for the whole of Mark’s story of God’s work in and through Jesus Christ and that the whole story that Mark tells … is still just the beginning. Why? Because the significance of what God accomplished through Jesus’s life, ministry, death and resurrection endures.
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