by diviadmin | Jun 13, 2022 | Articles and Poems
You wait for us until we are open to You. We wait for Your word to make us receptive. Attune us to Your voice, to Your silence. Speak and bring Your son to us – Jesus, the word of Your peace. Your word is near, O Lord our God, Your grace is near. Come to us...
by diviadmin | Jun 13, 2022 | Articles and Poems
I think, if I was clever That I would never, never Invent a label, sticky That needs one to be picky And takes a painful hour To scrape off from a jar! They drive me into fits They tear in tiny bits! I can’t help feeling blue When they leave behind the glue;...
by diviadmin | Jun 13, 2022 | Articles and Poems
So often I can’t wear the right clothes, Speak the right words, Fit the right mould, Be the shape people want me to be, Expect me to be, Demand that I am, To conform. ‘ But you Lord Accept me, Release me, Make it possible to be me, Perfectly free In your...
by diviadmin | Jun 13, 2022 | Articles and Poems
Editor: The Revd Michael Burgess continues his series on God in the Arts with a look at ‘The Potato Planters’ by Jean-Francois Millet, which hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. If you use the picture, please credit: Jean-François Millet, Public domain, via...
by diviadmin | Jun 13, 2022 | Articles and Poems
Church Mission Society has unveiled its recently “refreshed vision and purpose” for this generation, which is to make disciples of Jesus ‘at the edges of society’: the ‘edges of Church’ and the ‘edges of people’s comfort zones’. It will thus prioritise mission “at the...
