C is for Contemplation and Creativity
What’s the driving force behind your decision to begin blogging? Holding Heaven sprung from my experiences of contemplation and creativity both …
Reflections
Staying calm in the eye of the storm
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. …
Looking Back/Looking Forward: Happy New Year
The family have gone home, DH’s post-Christmas pudding is bubbling gently away on the stove and I’ve a glass of …
Advent ABC: Unseen
From Advent Weekly reflections, Living out our Faith: Looking Beyond Ourselves (Church of England): …Who is it in our communities that we …
Advent ABC: T is for Trust
…Treasure and Travel, all qualities needed on our journey. I’m thinking here of the magi, Kings, astronomers- whatever you want …
Advent ABC: Q is for Quiet
How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is given… – Oh Little Town of Bethlehem I’d several topics lined up for …
Advent ABC: P is for Prophets
Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight and the rough places plain. …
Advent ABC: Mary
…Mother of Christ, Mother of God, loved and revered. Wherever you fall theologically on several millenia of marian devotion, that …
Advent ABC: H is for Herod
…and Holy Innocents …Herod the King, in his raging, Charged he hath this day His men of might, in his …
Advent ABC: G is for Gabriel
…and Gift Not a drop of Highly Flavoured Gravy in sight. I know, I know! I Should Know Better at my advanced age, …
Advent ABC: D is for Darkness
Some might say that we begin and end our lives in the dark. Yet Advent speaks hope into that darkness, …
Advent ABC: C is for Candle
C is for Candle and Calendar Do you keep the tradition of lighting an Advent Candle to mark the time …