“Don’t sweat the small stuff” is a saying often used when people are worrying about relatively unimportant matters. Jesus says “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the Read More... from Reflections 29th August...
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Month: August 2010
Reflections 22nd August 2010
Through the daily Eucharist readings this week, we have been exploring some of Jesus parables describing the Kingdom of Heaven. What Jesus actually describes is not, the physical attributes of the Kingdom of Heaven, so much as the owner/ruler of the Kingdom, and the desire of the owner to gather Read More... from Reflections 22nd August...
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Reflections 15th August 2010
A teenage girl at holiday camp was torn between two sets of friends. Some of them were sunbathing on the jetty, saying to her “stay with us.” But her other friends were in a rowboat saying “no, come with us.” There she stood, one foot on the jetty, the other Read More... from Reflections 15th August...
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Reflections 8th August 2010
Recently, for me, it seems that our gospel readings keep focusing my attention on relationships… my/our relationship with God and my/our relationship with others. An important ingredient in any relationship is communication… two-way communication! In our relationship with God, that conversation is called “prayer’. Too often we end up...
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Reflections 1st August 2010 – The Body of Christ
Last Saturday (24th July) was our (the Vierow’s) first experience of the fabled St Paul’s Market. I say, “fabled” because Maurie and I had been hearing about the Market, from a number of sources, for some time before our arrival in the parish. It is a little hard to imagine Read More... from Reflections 1st August 2010 – The Body of...
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