Scripture & Reflection: Sunday 30th March and for the week ahead:Scripture: ‘As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience’. (Colossians 3.12) Reflection:Do you find that your clothes affect the way you feel and act? Do they also affect the way others react or relate to you? The clothing list that St Paul sets out is all about interaction with others. They stand in complete contrast with hostility, disinterest, superiority and impatience. He makes me ask myself ‘How carefully have I chosen what I want to show to others today? What message am I conveying?’ David Harmsworth
Scripture & Reflection: Sunday 23rd March and for the week ahead:Scripture:6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near;7 let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts;let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:6-9)Reflection:Do you think prayer is difficult, or just for ‘religious types’? Do you feel that maybe you are just not good enough, and God can’t possibly hear you?Then know the truth, that God is very near, nearer than you are to yourself, and that he is always ready to hear you, willing you to turn to him so that he can lift off your heavy burden and comfort you.Happily, God doesn’t think like people, he doesn’t have the same narrow outlook and small-minded concerns. God sees life on Earth and all Creation from a cosmic and timeless point of view, inviting us into a freedom and an abundant love that is larger and more generous than anything we can imagine. Welcome to God’s world and life in all its fulness!Revd Ylva
