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...

Each war is in reality many wars. Every one who died, lived their last days with their own memories, and hopes and fears. One war happens, one could say, millions of times.

Jesus said, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’
And the blind man replied, ‘Let me see again.’

Inching towards becoming those who serve because it’s the right thing to do, rather than those who serve because it’s the right thing to be seen to do.