2020 is a year which is being consciously experienced as a season of deferred or cancelled plans. This does not mean that our lives are on hold, waiting for a return to normal before we can start our lives again. Rather we are living right now, albeit in ways that we had not anticipated or …
There is always the temptation for a disciple of Jesus to frame our life from the perspective ‘If only Jesus were here,’ or ‘How do Jesus’ teaching and actions from two thousand years ago guide my responses to contemporary situations.’ Both these ways of thinking are deficient for the truth is that Jesus tells us …
A tendency is to run away from pain, and to think that wisdom is learning to recognise pain in order that we might escape it sooner and more effectively. The wisdom that we learn at the foot of the cross is that we are free to move toward pain. It is a wisdom and freedom …
Disciples of Jesus are called to follow him, taking up our cross. Because the freedom and desire to follow Jesus flow from Jesus’ own unique and unrepeatable bearing of his cross on our behalf, his invitation is a call to recognise that our burdens are real, but they are borne in the life that Jesus …
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