Greetings! Seems a better way to begin than Happy New Year, seeing as we are well beyond January! However, many of us have not yet met in 2022, and I write to draw your attention to some events this coming year. So along with greetings, I wish you all good things, health and happiness, for…
We might have hoped that covid would be a distant memory of 2020, but as it turns out, that would be too optimistic. Strange times continue. As I write, in the part of New Zealand where I live, we move to Level 3 this morning. Yet the streets remain quiet; the days have been feeling…
Happy New Year! While you may feel that you are well into it, back at work or engaged in activity, I’m still away and mulling those questions which come at this time of year. I’m not exactly looking for a resolution for 2021, so much as considering what in me needs to go, and what…
For sure, it has been a strange year – I don’t think anyone will question that! But for me, and I hope for you too, that at this end of the year, there are some glimmers of light. The last time I posted to this blog, I was about to go away to Rotorua for…
You might have noticed that the pause button has been pushed – with few posts on this site over past few weeks. This is because I have started a short term parish role, in Rotorua. Not that I am there yet – like you, perhaps, there is a sense of yes, but not quite yet,…
Over the past few days, as numbers of new Coronavirus cases decline, and announcements are made about scaling to Level 3, my sense is of a lighter atmosphere. There is increased activity – more advertising in the papers, and more cars going up and down Park Road. While we look towards a world of loosened…
For many, this has been an unusual kind of Easter. Those of us used to the traditions of the church know the sombre tones of Holy Week and Good Friday, the wait through Saturday, and the bright celebration of Easter Day. We are used also to gathering with friends and family over delicious meals and…
Greetings on a beautiful lockdown day – We are a week into this strange time, a time out of time as we know it. All the routines we enjoy, weekly coffee, church attendance, the freedom to go where we please, to move, shop and travel when and if we wish, has been taken from us.…
Greetings – The world has shifted yet again over these past few days. The future is unknown, other than that it will be different to what we are used to. Some of that difference may be for the better – I hope so! Yet, in change and the uncertainty of lockdown and restrictions, we can…
Greetings – I am emailing you as someone with whom I connect in Quiet Days or spiritual direction and conversation. Over the years, we have joined in reflective community. Now, when many regular gatherings are dissolving, I wondered whether an offering online, of a reflection or a practice each week, could assist in filling the…
