Tag Archive for ‘self’
The Beauty Beyond
by Brother Romuald Gibson fms Review by Kieran Fenn fms Beauty Shattered: Life brings many painful situations, but few can be as devastating as the breaking apart of a marriage and the loss of contact with loved children. The coming to terms with such loss and the long and painful healing process forms the story […]
Saturday 10 March
Micah 7:14-15,18-20 Ps. 103, Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 What about me? Seeing is such a wonderful gift. Yet the green eye of jealousy, entitlement and self righteousness effects us. It colours the way we see the world. It colours the way we expect others to be treated. It blinds us to our own prejudices. It stopped […]
Friday 9 March
Gen. 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-28 Ps. 105, Matthew 21:33-43,45-46 Fruit of the vine. A vineyard is a very fitting image to reflect on for readers of this publication. If you’ve been to ‘the Mount’ in Taradale you will have seen those healthy grape laden vines that produce excellent wines that are now enjoyed throughout the world. […]
Monday 5 March
Daniel 9:4-10, Ps. 79, Luke 6:36-38 Be compassionate A friend once told me that what we most dislike in others are the things that we cannot accept in ourselves. He also said that that the judgments and criticisms we make of others are still more pleasant than the way we judge and criticise ourselves. My […]
Grace Builds on Nature
“Test yourselves to see that you are holding to the faith. Do you not realise that Christ is in you unless you fail to meet the test’”(2 Cor. 13, 5). “I live now, not I, but Christ lives in me’”(Gal. 2, 20). Very frequently in the New Testament we are told that Christ, the Spirit […]
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