Posts from March 2025

Take off your sandals and take up as seat  A prayer of Henri Nouwen, based on John 13:1-20.  “I am looking to you, Lord. You have said so many loving words. Your heart has spoken so clearly. Now you want to show me even more clearly how much you love me. Knowing that your Father has put everything in your hands, that you have come from God and are returning to God, you remove your outer garments and, taking a…

We just had a lovely weekend away at Glenroy for the Ilam Church Camp.Here are few of my reflections and noticings…  We missed those of you who couldn’t make it or who aren’t really in to camps and I hope there will be more chances for conversation and hanging out together throughout this coming year.Thanks heapsHelen.

Relearning Old Wisdom Adulthood is a constant rediscovery that the things your parents told you to do when you were little are actually great ideas. Things like routines, saving money, being grateful, having a bed time and so on. Boring! Or so I used to think… I was enjoying a Bible Project podcast the other day on the Lord’s Prayer. It was really interesting, and one point they made stood out to me: Jesus was building on the Jewish obligation to pray three…

Gravestones and New Stories  In a development that should come as a surprise to no one, I finally received my ADHD diagnosis last week. The path to this result has been a lengthy, convoluted process that appears specifically designed to filter out the very people it seeks to assist. I would argue that one look at the interior of my car, or any first-hand experience of school mornings in my household ought to suffice as diagnostic material.  My first response…