God is Love and we are God’s children There is no room for fear in Love We Love because God first Loved us Love is the key placed within our being beyond time, and when we turn it we are released from the slavery of sin.
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Category: Thought of the Day
When I am physically illuminating a text with ink, I use pigments like ground up soil, or oak galls and Iron salts. When I am digitally illuminating I use a colour pallet from a photograph of a place. Alison makes paper where the leaves become one with the page, and has a catalogue of colours […]
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Love is …
There are many words used for Love. Some of them hide the power of the emotion in the everyday, some are kept for special occasions to release the power of a moment. How many words do you know? (How many unspoken actions!) How many could you add to this video 🙂
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MU: 16 Days of activism
There is an awful lot going on under the surface. It takes time to become aware of it. If your awareness is raised by one instance though, you become aware of an issue for a moment. Small as a mustard seed. Take time out to recognise the moments and your understanding deepens. A life of […]
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Doomscrolling
One of the reasons to set up this website, and move away from the facebook page Quartz has had since 2013, is Doomscrolling. The technology underlying social media is cutting edge. The long term effects are barely understood by the people using it, and ultimately whilst they exist because they provide a public service they […]
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Quiet Charism
Have you ever noticed that you just like being near someone? There is magnetic invisible draw some people have that gathers people together, and forms communities. Or have you experienced uncommonly good days, where nothing out of the ordinary happened but you just hung out with the people who remind you of who you are […]
This is event is happening on the day I post it – so not much advance warning I’m afraid. Even if the event has passed by the time you read this though, follow the link and find out more. Perhaps it will encourage and inspire you. https://www.christianaid.org.uk/events/curiosity-creativity-and-climate Even just knowing that Christian Aid have a […]
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Hindsight
In science fiction the reader is often given a glimpse of present reality from an imagined future perspective. The first panel in this story reminded my both of the optimism of the atomic era, and the growing recognition that something was wrong with the way we were using oil. It was an era of Mutually […]
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Psalm 8
A song from my childhood What balance of responsibilities and rights does our relationship with heaven and earth require?
What is your relationship with your environment? Or perhaps a better place to start is to reflect on how you perceive your relationship with all that is around and within you. Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed by the absence of the things we hope for. It can seem like a struggle to animate lifeless dust, […]