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This verse meme (I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things. Isaiah 45:7 NIV) seems to be going around as if it has some special, secret meaning that's just been discovered. I don't want to get into big discussions with...

I'm listening to the book 'The Veil: an invitation to the unseen realm' by Blake K Healy. He's a Christian and claims to have seen both demons and angels since he was a child. This isn't something I learned about growing up as a Methodist and I've always tended to stay away from the subject...

Like many Christians I have a 'word' for the year as a sort of focus or meditation for the year, 2021. My word is 'beloved'. It was my hope this year to focus in on God's love for me, accept that love (something difficult for me as I feel unworthy) and experience more peace and joy as a result...

I was just watching Bloom Today, a Christian show focused on healing, recovery and the spiritual journey, and feel confused about it. There was a female writer from the USA talking about her journey of grief (the death of her sister as a child) and the difficulty she had of ever feeling or...

Please pray for my brother-in-law, Oliver, in intensive care with Covid 19

Nevermind.

I have had a stroke. Please pray that I have courage and a spirit of trustful surrender. Thank you for praying. God is good, all the time.

Today I came across these words: We were made for His pleasure and His glory, and if we fail to walk with His Son and be like Him we will end up like the demons that are taunting us every minute of every day, for they are the future of every failed human, void of any Truth or Life. I don't...

Dante's Divine Comedy in three parts (each an hour) on BBC Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xtvdp#play

Source: Reflection 163: Glorifying God in Your “Wretchedness”

Little children can’t wait to grow up. When they have a birthday, they are filled with joy that they are one year older. And yet, as little children, they are still dependent upon their parents in many ways. The same is true of us in a spiritual sense. We often want to “grow up” and to...

“I will not reject anyone who comes to me.” Jn. 6:37 This little line says much about our Lord’s Divine Mercy. It is a line repeated often in St. Faustina’s Diary of Divine Mercy and it’s a statement that many people need to hear. Why is this important to hear? Because, very often, we can...

I find the lives of the saints very inspiring. It is comforting to know that they too experienced times of depression, melancholy and desolation. https://catholicexchange.com/saints-and-depression

''All of creation and each of us have received original blessing. Yet we have been conditioned to focus on the negative in ourselves and others. Think of a negative phrase you have said aloud or thought to yourself that stems from a sense of shame rather than your inherent dignity. Turn it...

''As winds of up to 110 kph continued to batter the Netherlands on Wednesday, a replica of Noah’s ark has come adrift in the harbour of the staunchly Protestant fishing village of Urk. The 70 metre-long 13-metre high replica of Noah’s ark came loose from its moorings in the strong winds and...

Many people will take up a sport or join a gym in the coming month. They may follow a specific diet (paleo, 5:2, superfoods, raw vegan...) and set themselves some 'body goals'. They might use apps to monitor their heart rate and sleeping patterns and enter all the 'data' regarding foods, macro...

An interesting article: ''A big reason, according to McHargue, is the level of fear involved. The more rigid your faith structure, the more drastic the leap of faith required to start asking questions surrounding it.'' “You go back to the first 1,300 years of Christianity, and faith is defined...

''The secret to the sloth's success is their slothful nature and their suite of energy-saving adaptations. In fact slothfulness is such a successful strategy, that there are examples all over the animal kingdom, including, surprisingly, worker ants. Recent studies in humans have shown the many...

This evening I am reading The Great Divorce (I am halfway through it) and it is blowing my mind and freaking me out and all the good stuff that great writers can do to a person on a rainy December evening in suburbia. Am I in hell? Am I a whiner? Do I go around nagging and sighing and...

I just wanted to share this because it made me laugh a little which is nice as I had a bit of a gloomy day and I need to cheer up a bit.