Sheila Bridge Blog
There is something missing in the gospels! I am shocked! So often we read the Bible so closely to see what IS there, it's not often that I am so forcefully struck by something that is NOT there. Yesterday I took a primary school assembly on ‘how to pray’. Using a teaspoon, I taught the... Continue Reading →
I have waited a week to comment on the last episode of Call the Midwife. I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone...but wasn't it brilliant? We witnessed a miracle of answered prayer and saw a 'prayer blanket' in action. I got very excited. I have knitted prayer shawls for years. I have given and been... Continue Reading →
My mother has given me a vest. I am well past the age for maternal guidance on my underwear, but this is no ordinary vest. This vest is a memory. It is the embodiment of moment in time that Mum wants to be remembered, which is why, even given that it is completely useless, she... Continue Reading →
Or, in the words of Clint Eastwood, 'I'll be back'! I don't know which it will be. This is just to say I have had a bit of a battle with this wordpress blog site. It shut me out and now (by some miracle I don't understand) I've managed to log back in, I'm concerned... Continue Reading →
What would church be like if this notice was put on all church doors and we actually meant it? We extend a special welcome to those who are single, married, divorced, gay, filthy rich, dirt poor. ‘Dydw I ddim yn siarad Seasneg’. We extend a special welcome to those who are crying, to new-borns, to... Continue Reading →
Has anyone else noticed it's been trying to snow again today? It feels like a divine nudge to me - this morning God told me I needed to learn how to snowboard! Yeah right, like that's going to happen! I'd be a bit of baby when it comes to snowboarding. So there's no chance I'm... Continue Reading →
As some of you will be aware I am a curate at Anglican church that recently underwent a huge change. At the start of this change two different churches in two different parishes became two churches in one parish. Then sometime after that through force of circumstance, the church belonging to the larger/charismatic/evangelical/conservative congregation had... Continue Reading →
Today I was in a hurry. I got up in a hurry (late), I walked the dog in a hurry, I ate breakfast in a hurry... you get the picture. It didn't get much better till lunch time by which time I had got through all my chores and made it to my goal: riding... Continue Reading →
Have you ever noticed that being asked about something over and over has the effect of making you less and less sure? This is the reverse of what you might expect. I experienced this yesterday when I went to have an MRI scan on my head. When I got the appointment letter there was a... Continue Reading →
In the post 'Being Sure about Stuff that matters' I have talked about this book. One of the first things that bothered me about it was that Chan repeatedly said 'we must be sure about this' or 'we cannot afford to be wrong' about the doctrine of hell. Then, later in the book he wrote... Continue Reading →
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