Reflections

  • Reflections 5-11 August

    True greatness, it turns out, looks less like rank or reputation and more like a shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep behind, searching the hillside for the one that everyone else had already stopped counting.

    Reflections 5-11 August
  • Reflections 29 July – 4 August

    God so often arrives unremarkably, in the everyday we have stopped expecting God moments. The grace of recognition is to find him exactly where we had ceased to look.

    Reflections 29 July – 4 August
  • Reflections 22 – 28 July

    We are so quick to separate good from worthless, certain of our judgment. But the sorting belongs to God alone, and what looks like delay is mercy in disguise.

    Reflections 22 – 28 July
  • Reflections 15 – 21 July

    We are so quick to separate good from worthless, certain of our judgment. But the sorting belongs to God alone, and what looks like delay is mercy in disguise.

    Reflections 15 – 21 July
  • Reflections 8 – 14 July

    Grace was never reserved for the perfect. When the hour of testing comes, we are told not to rehearse — grace arrives precisely when we have nothing prepared.

    Reflections 8 – 14 July
  • 1 – 7 July

    Devotion can harden into routine until we cling to old forms and miss the new thing grace is pouring out. Life can expand.

    1 – 7 July
  • 24 – 30 June

    Something is always being set in motion just beyond our understanding — a voice returned after long silence, a hand reaching toward the untouchable, a boat pitching through darkness with an unhurried presence at its centre. The city is full of these moments, disguised as interruptions. The question is not whether we will encounter them,…

    24 – 30 June
  • 17 – 23 June

    Wednesday 17 June The practices Jesus describes here, almsgiving, prayer, fasting, are not abandoned but purified; stripped of the performance that turns them from encounter into exhibition. The Father who sees in secret: this phrase carries an enormous weight of intimacy, suggesting a God who is present in the hidden places, in the unwitnessed moment,…

    17 – 23 June
  • 10 – 16 June

    From the letter of the law to the face of the stranger, the gospel asks a single, repeated question: are you willing to truly see? Jesus sends his followers out unburdened — no spare sandals, no elaborate strategies — because the kingdom travels light. It rests not in doctrine but in presence, not in power…

    10 – 16 June
  • 3 – 9 June

    Jesus consistently refuses the frames we build around him — around power, around generosity, around love itself. Whether watching a widow’s two coins or silencing a crowd with a single question, he trains our eyes to see differently: God’s arithmetic works by entirely different principles. The life breathed into us, the bread broken among us…

    3 – 9 June

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