Welcome to these pages,
A new day dawns. Still, silent and untarnished. This has been ‘days most sacred hour’ since the dawn of time. Time for a moment of reflection.
Yesterday’s failures left behind and its clichés replaced by new reawakened creativity. Fresh thoughts, ideas and words, hopes and dreams. A new dawn of endless possibilities,
A new beginning, yet always with the same reassuring Presence of a Heavenly Father who cares and who knows his plans for me today.and who invites me to follow. I wake alert ready to listen to Him with whom all things are possible.
Today is special and precious, A gift from God. I don’t want to waste it.
‘There’s everything in this for life, and there’s all in all for death, and you’ll not want it beyond.’
From The Copsley Annals
A Listening Heart
Ever since I was pointed to the example of Jesus in the Gospels, I have endeavoured to start the day with a time of quiet– to listen to God, through reading a Bible passage and to talk with him in prayer.
When the postman arrives with a letter, or a text message comes from someone you love deeply, before doing anything else you read and probably re-read the letter or the message a second time. We too, have the chance to hear every day from God, our loving Heavenly Father as we read the Bible with a listening ear.
Someone has called the Bible ‘Letters from Home’.
The Loveliest Life ever lived
I try to be often reading in the 4 Gospels. Luke is a favourite. To read about the loveliest Life ever lived is always an inspiration. Who can not be moved reading how Jesus graciously met with people, never turning any away who came in need. He was always healing people, and everyone who met him with an open heart was never the same afterwards – blessed and changed for the better. No wonder his most attractive life drew crowds, and it draws me. Someone once said Jesus’ whole body language said ‘Welcome!’, and it still does. I want to know this Jesus better -for him to step out of the pages of Bible history and walk with me.
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Children are content to paddle in the shallows (as in the photo above). But God wants us to go into deeper waters and swim!
When the ‘wine’ runs out “It is our duty to bring Jesus everything, including our emptiness, and ask for ‘Cana’ again.”
A divine visit is a joy to be treasured whenever we are favored with it…..Have your hearts right with Him, and He will visit you often.
My life needs to reflect Christ and shine with a beauty not my own. Such a fragrance can be infectious.
The Holy Spirit ‘hovered’ over the waters in Creation. He still ‘hovers’ over chaos and disorder creating life instead of staleness, something fresh and glorious. Bringing hope for our despair and fruit for our barrenness.
Heaven opened when the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus at his baptism and remained there, throughout his life. I need to be open to heaven too.
The early Christians had no fear of death—but rather they faced it with eager anticipation.
A joy which took a man cheerfully to his death for the sake of One he could not see, made a profound impression, on the ancient world.
A Listening Heart 