Most surprisingly, I got on with Jeremiah a bit better than Isaiah! Jeremiah begins so beautifully. Upon hearing his call, Jeremiah says 'oh, but I don't know how to speak because I am just a youth!'. But God says 'don't say that Jeremiah! You will go where I send you and say what I tell [...]
It has been a long time since my last post in this series - three months in fact, which is shocking! Many apologies about that. The truth is... I just got bogged down in all the befuddling language, which is sometimes a bizarre mix of flowery and threatening. I didn't really get it. The autumn [...]
Considering we had a verse from this book of the Bible on the front of our wedding order of service, and considering that I did a reading from this book at a wedding I attended at the weekend, I don't know as much about it as I should! I know there's a lot of metaphor [...]
Looking around over the last few weeks and seeing the sparkly lights, hearing the Christmas music and checking the diary each day to work our what we need for which party today, you wouldn't know we are in a season on waiting. Advent is the time when traditionally, the people of God wait for Christmas [...]
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