Accepting help from the divine gardener? Six-thirty a.m. and peace and quiet is mine! I’m having my prayer time early in the morning before the rest of the family surfaces, sitting in my favourite red armchair, with a view onto a tree at the side of the house. As I read a Psalm and glance …
Month: May 2020
On the humble bumble (a devotional)
A new discovery on bumblebee behaviour has got me thinking… I think sometimes that as Christians we grow so familiar with a passage of scripture that it can lose its impact on us. We enjoy hearing a well-known verse in a different translation, as the meaning catches us again, like a joking friend who’ll pounce …
Birdsong (a devotional)
A member of one my adult education classes is in the high-risk category during this lockdown and has been told in a letter that she can have her window open a short way – the extent of her freedom (though if she owned a very spacious garden I believe she could use it at her …
Worship during Lockdown
I’m rethinking my perfect surroundings for worship - what's needed, what's desirable, and what we can manage without, for a time. Perhaps what I love most about my church (One Church, Dover) is our times of worship, when up to around 200 people are drawing close to God together, and singing out heartfelt praise. …
Caroline Greville 