The good road is yours to walk

The church is where, at its best, we are given the strength to be honest before God and before one another. I – like you, I suspect - live with a deep sense of my own inadequacy to, and failures in, the tasks set before me, set before us.

God’s generosity, joy, mercy and new life, exceeds all limit, reason and expectation; it fills every need, and offers life to all.

Prayer can take us to a place of stillness and openness, a place of grace.

Threat and promise – Matthew lays out the great themes of his gospel from the start

To speak of Jesus as both God and human need not involve a juggling act: keeping both his divinity and his humanity in the air, without confusing the two. His divinity is not to be contrasted to his humanity; rather his humanity, our humanity, is restored and fulfilled by the his obedience to the divine, enabling that divine presence and action we glimpse as central to his life.

Paradoxes reveal a depth to what we might dismiss as shallow; they are the entry into a deeper searching.

Let your decency be known.

In this season of Advent, as we remember God's coming as a little baby, may we also be part of preparing the way for Christ's return in our midst, in the real world, and at the heart of all Creation.

Advent is a time of preparation in as much as we give ourselves the space and time to be judged, in love and by love, and for love. In that judgement is not our condemnation, but our healing.

Christ is soon to be born again in our cycle, our going around, as a human, as someone from the image of God as something that comes from within the imagination of God.

God is simply calling us to pick up the stone that's in front of us...