It seemed uncomfortably apt that one of the set readings for the week following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation was this passage from Luke’s Gospel: Then Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there, and he said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you …
Expectations
My mother was a teacher and a really good teacher. As a teenager myself I knew some of her students as friends, and they loved and respected her. As she grew older and more tired, however, she became gradually more negative, jaded by the endless demands of the job. She stopped enjoying teaching, with all …
Take heart
It was while preparing a funeral for a much-loved lady, that I first heard the phrase; ‘She was a radiator not a drain’, which instantly gave me a vivid sense of her character. Life’s drains are those who suck away our energy, sapping all our joy and vitality with endless demands or negativity. A radiator, …
Don’t fret
I’ve long thought that simply saying to someone ‘Don’t worry’, is both pointless and infuriating. If only it were that easy to switch off our anxiety. Besides, there’s sometimes good cause for us to feel apprehensive, even if we know full well that the worry doesn’t achieve anything. Recently, however, I was struck by 2 …