Wednesday evenings for me at the moment are all church based, and will be for the foreseeable future. From Easter I’m running monthly groups for the church family or friends to come to: a Bring Your Own Book one, a Wholly Holy Book group, a monthly meet up and sing for the annual Christmas Choir and a worship-through-art one. One a week, on a fixed Wednesday, so the art session, for example, will always be on the first Wednesday, the BYOB group on the second etc. But currently my Wednesdays (unless I was ill) have been spent at the study groups. The sermon series this term has been about serv ..read more

And so to a post I meant to write nearly two weeks ago, or three weeks ago now, when Lent started and I began my challenge. Lent is a good season for starting things, for giving up bad habits and embarking on good ones. I know many people who aren’t absolutely Christians who do something for Lent simply because *that’s what you do*, and I quite like that. It’s a hang over from the days when most people would assign themselves to one denomination or another, and when the build up to Easter was not marked, as it is now, by the piles of eggs that increase weekly after Christmas to a discounted cr ..read more

It’s been two months since I wrote. Winter. Peak hygge season, but this year I’ve been torn between wanting to hibernate and having to act. I’d like to spend the worst of the cold months at home, snuggled under my blanket sipping tea and rewatching favourite old films and instead I’ve been spending way more time than I have available on working in the office, sitting with my parents or feeling under the weather myself. That last one has probably had a big impact on my mood, I think. I have an almost constant cold going on somewhere, including a left ear that blocks on a whim (one week and coun ..read more

There will always be a door to the light. ― Shiro Amano, Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1 ..read more

 “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.” — Aaron Rose ..read more

Each time a person passes by you and you say ‘hello’, imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem ..read more

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.” ― David Wolpe ..read more

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people’s eyes, to reveal the marvels around.” Paulo Coelho ..read more

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.” ― Oprah Winfrey ..read more

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” So, I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me toward the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East. So, heart, be still! What need our little life, Our human life, to know, If God hath comprehension? In all the dizzy strife Of things both high and low God hideth His intention. T ..read more