Humility is groundedness. Lack of groundedness leads to arrogance and war. We are forever tempted to give up humus to become all knowing. Genesis therefore is the truest story there is.
Humility drives out the demons that beset the human heart.
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Finding sanctuary is finding the still place where we realise we can live in the chaotic world around us but from a place of rest or peace.
I’ll be sharing the steps to you finding your own sanctuary over the coming blogs
Humility is the first step, but we have an incorrect view of what humility really [...]
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A few years ago there was a BBC tv program called ‘the monastery’ where five ordinary guys spent 40 days in a monastery to see if there was anything in the God idea.
They each discovered a kind of sanctuary in their lives. Not overly religious but a new place of rest and peace, a still [...]
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I’m realising that relationships do not naturally run straight. When I just keep going, living in relationships, I notice that they wear thin, seem to wear out and experience some kind of trauma like an unexercised back. When the trauma comes like a falling out or falling away the pain forces my attention and [...]
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Just the last few days I have noticed that the views I form don’t fit to well with those I’m engaging with. There are conversations, issues, in which I have views but once I form a view I have difficulty not declaring it. Once declared it has to be supported, defended even.
I have noticed something [...]
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The last thing I want to do is to hold up a mirror to someone elses life. It’s a dangerous thing. We hate to be shown an image of what we are really like. Jesus did this all the time and it got him into loads of trouble and eventually they killed him for it.
What [...]
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I am noticing that the less I do and the more I think about things the more rewarding life is. It’s like with a bass player in a band, they say less is more. God doesn’t want more from us, he wants us to see the value in what we are already involved in. It’s [...]
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Walking with my daughter, we see a car pull up sharp. Two young girls jump out, one is crying and they are pursued by a young man, the driver. We slow down our walk in case the girls need us and look for the local police phone number. (which I must now put in my [...]
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Finally I discover that intimacy is the result of faithful affection. It’s like apples on a tree. The tree is constant and faithfull and the result is apples. I can’t just decide to produce an apple and in the same way I can’t just expect to produce an intimate relationship. Unless I am prepared to [...]
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getting on with some new found freedom I notice that …
intimacy is the flower of affection
not the other way around
think about it
chat later
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