Morning Light: The Wonder of a New DayIn the New Testament Book of Ephesians 2: 1 to 10, St.
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I have often concluded an email note or letter with words such as the following: “May you sense the Presence of the Lord, today.” I remember that Shackleton in writing of his explorations in Antarc
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When Thomas beheld and touched the wounds of Jesus, he cried: ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus responded, in effect.
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Purported chains that bound the Apostle Paul, while a prisoner in Rome. Displayed in St Paul Outside the Walls Basilica.
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OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME.
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We are often drawn to the wrong things for all the wrong reasons, but sometimes for the right reasons too.
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The effects of the Fall are reflected in the way people sin or show the ‘curse’ in their lives. This is reflected in at least three ways (cf. Genesis 3): You shall surely die.
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Frederick Buechner writes: “Faith is the direction your feet start walking when you discover that you are loved.”
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Turkey left-overs, cold potatoes and squash, tiny mince tarts, a glass of cranberry cocktail . . . a brief but pretty snow flurry - whispy cotton, gentle on the neighbour's recently new fence . .
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I rebuke myself, well sometimes, at the many times in which I am not mostly nor fully present. The picture here shows Jane looking out to the isle of Mull from Holy Island, Iona, in Scotland.
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Life is measured by moments and we should make the most of them. And from time to time, something happens: we are arrested by something unusual, something, someone that gets our attention.
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I am still enormously in debt to Dr. Francis Schaeffer, the founder of the L'Abri movement and at one time a co-pastor in St.
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We all need such a place: what author Madeline L’Engle meant in the book of that name, Circle of Quiet.
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We all need such a place for spiritual retreat and restoration, a place of contemplation and peace . . .
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I’ve always been intrigued by pathways, by the Journey, by the wonder of what may be just around the corner. And I'm glad of musicians and poets who remind us of it.
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Things may be awful at the time, but it gets better. Later, we reflect and note again the feelings, the sense of loss, the anger, the disappointment.
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Sometimes you just don't know what to do next, which way to turn.
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I have a friend who is ‘off the scale’ when they do tests about people being active, as opposed to those who, I suppose like me, are more contemplative.
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There are lots of things that can contribute to making a bad day. I am beginning to be really frustrated by the level of congestion found in driving in Toronto.
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I am pleased to note the many new and emerging expressions of Christian faith and community.
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Pilgrims walk together, or sometimes alone, sometimes pressed forward even pushed by those who are eager to get ahead. We all start on the road in the same way.
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The path I walk, Christ walks it.
May the land in which I am be without sorrow.
May the Trinity protect me wherever I stay, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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Just feel like giving thanks and praising my Lord, today.
And I think about the helps that are given for those of us who want to do so.
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What lies ahead in the dawn of each New Year? God only knows.
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Worth and majesty!” – sing to Jesus! He the King of Kings our Lord,
Freely gives to souls sore wounded, life abundant by His Word;
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Every once in a while we just seem to lose steam. I think it was Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, not only one of the world’s great preachers but also a distinguished psychologist who had that experience.
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