Saul hid.
In and amongst a pile of sacks and supplies.
About to be publicly announced as Israel’s first king, he hid.
Afraid.
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I’m sitting, drinking a coffee, thinking about my talk for Sunday, and just had my eyes opened to a beautiful moment in John 21.
I love it when that happens.
Particularly when it’s something in a familiar passage that you’d never spotted before.
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Ordinary.
Adjective: with no special or distinctive features; normal.
Ordinary people.
That’s always been part of our heart-beat at Neighbourhood.
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Take the lane that leads south-west out of Pooley Bridge, on the northern tip of Ullswater, and you find yourself driving down a narrow, stone-wall lined road, that winds its way towards Martindale.
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Continuing my journey through the Psalms, and today was 104. It’s a beautiful song of praise to God as Creator and Sustainer.
A little aside, but one thing I’ve been learning recently about reading Scripture, is reading DEVOTIONALLY.
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Just a short thought.
I’m reading through the Psalms at the moment - and loving it. Lingering longer than I have done in the past. And enjoying things strike me in a new way.
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It’s International Women’s Day today.
So in that spirit….
Today, I am thankful for Mary…who allowed her world to be shaken as she obediently carried the Saviour of the world.
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For the life of the world.
That’s what Jesus said.
This bread is my flesh.
Which I will give.
For the life of the world.
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I’m working my way through the Psalms and this morning I was in Psalm 77.
I started reading and got caught up in the Psalmist’s despair.
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Do we know what we’re doing when we come to the Bible,
to Scripture,
to the Word?
Do we know what it is we have in our hands?
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Yesterday I heard the woodpecker;
drum his beat in a tree.
Fast and steady. Pausing, I’m guessing,
to catch his breath.
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It’s your grace that broke into my life – not in a dramatic way…not in a thunderbolt kind of way…but in an almost unnoticeable way…gently wooing me…gently winning my heart…gently drawing me nearer and nearer to yourself.
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