Posted in quotations, story on 29 February, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This post is a story-sermon by Trevor Dennis,
Vice-Dean of Chester Cathedral.
One hot afternoon Adam and Eve, unselfconsciously naked, sat on the bank of one of the rivers of Eden, dangling their feet in the water. Eve picked up a flat round stone, stood up and flicked it in twelve graceful bounces right across to [...]
Posted in scripture, story on 28 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The law is a light in my mind, my study and joy; sometime intricate, sometimes astonishingly simple. The foundation of our faith is the law, the basis of our covenant with God. I gave all my life to the law, first to understand the patterns and complexities, then to implement them. Perhaps [...]
Posted in quotations on 27 February, 2008 | 6 Comments »
God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love. He created love in all its forms. He created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Journey, Lent on 26 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a Chinese Proverb which says:
It is good to have an end to journey towards,
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
We can’t live every day as if it was Easter. We have to go through Lent to get there.
40 days of burying the Alleluia means that we really ‘get it’ on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 26 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some words I wrote for a homily for a Confirmation Service at the weekend. It’s been humbling how many people in the principally secular community in which I work have found them helpful.
Religious belief is about a journey. A journey lived in the life of every human being on this planet who recognises that there [...]
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