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Wednesday 26th August – Icon of the Day
That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this,...
Chris Williams
Aug 25, 20202 min read
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Tuesday 25th August – Icon of the Day
‘Enter eagerly into the treasure house that is within you, and you will see the things that are in Heaven – for there is but one single...
Chris Williams
Aug 24, 20201 min read
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Monday 24th August – Icon of the Day
‘Even in the dryness of our desert journey, we are offered a sustaining taste of the sweet, living waters. Even amidst the gloom, we...
Chris Williams
Aug 23, 20201 min read
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Sunday 23rd August - Icon of the Day
‘Our protection is a God who spurned protection. Our protection is a God of vulnerability. We will be vulnerable as the children of...
Chris Williams
Aug 22, 20201 min read
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Saturday 22nd August - Icon of the Day
‘I know more or less How to live through my life now, But I want to know how to live what’s left With my eyes open and my hands open; I...
Chris Williams
Aug 21, 20201 min read
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Friday 21st August - Icon of the Day
‘Living Water who refreshes our weariness Bathes and washes and cleanses our wounds Be for us always A fountain of life, And for all the...
Chris Williams
Aug 20, 20201 min read
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Thursday 20th August - Icon of the Day
‘Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap, because the measure you measure out with be...
Chris Williams
Aug 19, 20201 min read
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Wednesday 19th August - Icon of the Day
‘When you leave behind a chapter of your life, with no way of return, providence also moves, moves towards you with gifts’ *** Image:...
Chris Williams
Aug 18, 20201 min read
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Tuesday 18th August - Icon of the Day
‘God of all truth, You are truth itself, and therefore truth is not an idea or a concept but first of all a life, an energy, a love, a...
Chris Williams
Aug 17, 20202 min read
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Monday 17th August - Icon of the Day
‘He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despair,...
Chris Williams
Aug 16, 20201 min read
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Sunday 16th August - Icon of the Day
‘God appears to be resurrecting everything all the time and everywhere. It is not something ‘to believe in’ as much as it is something to...
Chris Williams
Aug 15, 20201 min read
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Saturday 15th August - Icon of the Day
‘We have avoided the scandal of the Incarnation to avoid God in His most distressing disguise’ Mother Theresa *** Image: ‘Christ Child’...
Chris Williams
Aug 14, 20201 min read
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Friday 14th August - Icon of the Day
‘God comes to us disguised as our life’ Paula d’Arcy *** Image: ‘Experimental’ Photo: Peter Klashorst, 2007, used under the Creative...
Chris Williams
Aug 13, 20201 min read
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Thursday 13th August - Icon of the Day
‘Love has you. Love is you. Love alone, and your deep need for love, recognises love everywhere else. Remember that you already are what...
Chris Williams
Aug 12, 20201 min read
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Wednesday 12th August - Icon of the Day
‘Sustain me, O Lord, According to Your promise That I may live: Let me not be disappointed In my hope’ Psalm 119 *** Image: ‘Woman...
Chris Williams
Aug 11, 20201 min read
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Tuesday 11th August - Icon of the Day
‘I am all at once what Christ is Since He was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd Patch, matchwood, immortal diamond Is...
Chris Williams
Aug 10, 20201 min read
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Monday 10th August - Icon of the Day
All night prayer of St Francis of Assisi: ‘Who are you, O God, and who am I?’ *** Image: Stone carving, Iona Abbey, Scotland Photo:...
Chris Williams
Aug 9, 20201 min read
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Sunday 9th August - Icon of the Day
The most common word for worship in the Greek New Testament is ‘proskuneo’ which means, ‘to come forward to kiss. *** Image: Bonsai...
Chris Williams
Aug 8, 20201 min read
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Saturday 8th August – Icon of the Day
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,...
Chris Williams
Aug 7, 20202 min read
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Pastoral Letter - 7th August
Dear Friends, Yesterday was the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Matthew Chapter 16 verses 13-23. The Collect: Father in Heaven,...
Emily Bainbridge
Aug 7, 20208 min read
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