What Mary did was challenging for both Martha and Judas.
For Mary, devotion was exemplary to service and at this particular time she was performing an act of welcoming no matter the cost.
There are times when we need to celebrate the quiet and beautiful, abundant and meditative, superfluous and the pretty as followers of Jesus.
The story of the father and the 2 sons who choose different paths is a real life story!
Often people make disappointing choices, they don’t always turn out as planned.
The father in this story is like God – loving and forgiving and welcoming.
Lent is a time for making new starts, examine yourself and bring your best to God.
We humans have been given free choice. Sometimes we use it wisely – other times we cause harm and can hurt people.
The latter is is not the kind of life God wants for, and from, us.
God is always looking to call us back to living the way of love. God always offers a 2nd chance if we fail.
Lent is a time when we are called to look at how we are living – is it the example Jesus showed us?
What we most long for is what we most fear to find. What if we did, indeed, see the face of God?
The season of Lent calls us to confront our frailty, fallibility and fallenness and yearn for God.
The one we have longed for and feared to seek has already and always been seeking us.
May we be willing to be found.
The wilderness is a space where we unearth our innate potential and begin to transform into the individuals we are destined to become.
Lent offers a transformative space that encouraged deep reflection, growth, and connection to a broader spiritual reality.
In this time may we emerge from our wilderness stronger, wiser and ever closer to the heart of God.
As Jesus wandered the dusty roads connecting with people he showed his true humanness.
Then an another event happens and and Christ’s Divinity and his path to Jerusalem looms before everyone.
Fully human and fully divine as required in all its depth, for what the cross and tomb will demand.
Our actions will follow from where our heart leads us to look and see, and what we think about.
What we focus on and what we fill our time and our minds with has a direct effect on what our
instant responses to people and situations will be.
The challenge of Palm Sunday is to find our-self in the story, saying ‘Yes’ to Jesus and all that he stood for. Let’s all go up to Jerusalem, but it could be dangerous! ALL AGE MESSAGE ‘Magpie’ talks about things he has done and the ways he deals with the issues he creates. When…
Mary gave her very best expensive perfume to show her love for Jesus. It was a free but costly gift that Jesus gave – his life, to show his love for us. ALL AGE MESSAGE When the ‘jar’ is broken open the sweet healing of Christ can be released. A broken ‘jar’ can transform…
Life is a journey -we all make right and wrong decisions.
We have things in life we regret.
If there is genuine love in a relationship then there will be forgiveness.
God says to us all, “My child,
welcome back you are forgiven”.
