Sheila Bridge Blog
I am just coming to the end of an 8 day journey through the Holy Land. We began in Galilee with three nights at the Pilgerhaus a retreat house on the shores of Lake Galilee. Highlights here included an swim as the sun came up, a boat trip out on to the 'sea' of Galilee,... Continue Reading →
Another poem by Helen Brocklehusrt:via Mary, mother of Jesus
We had great fun yesterday at our Worship for All service on the theme of HOPE. We began by lighting our Advent Ring. "We light 1, 2, 3, 4 candles on our ring, one for each Sunday in Advent," I said, "when do you think we light the fifth candle in the middle?" "ON MY... Continue Reading →
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I have just completed a retreat at El Palmeral. What a privilege! I feel like I have entered a little pocket of heaven on earth. Snuggled away in the Spanish countryside near Alicante, Mike and Julie welcome 10 to 12 guests regularly into what is their home and is also a retreat centre. You... Continue Reading →
Grief? Hassle? Irritation? Frustration? Define 'trouble' as any sort of problem, setback, disappointment or pain and ask yourself the above question. Possibly you will only come up with these kinds of answers: sorrow/loss of earnings/loss of confidence/loss of hope in the future. For you might even say that your troubles are dividing you from friends... Continue Reading →
Thinking back over the book "Stranger than we can Imagine", would I recommend it? I'm not sure I would - it's a fascinating look back over the 20th century but it doesn't leave you with any sense of hope about the 21st-century. And hope, substantial hope in something solid, is what we all really need... Continue Reading →
This is an amazing read! It leaps from relativity to Cubism to Surrealism, to the optimism in Star Trek and the nihilism in Casablanca. It explains quantum mechanics using a hilarious analogy of Putin punching a kangaroo. From there it goes on to existentialism, individualism and the space race. Higgs has written a factual book... Continue Reading →
"Let man's soul be a sphere and then, in this, the intelligence that moves, devotion is" These are lines from a poem by John Donne (1573-1631), hardly contemporary but still wonderfully insightful. We have all sorts of words for worship these days: praise/adoration/contemplation but I think loves this phrase, worship or 'devotion' is 'the intelligence... Continue Reading →
I have learnt a spiritual lesson from growing potatoes. Just when they begin to show little green shoots just above the surface of the soil like this: you are supposed to dump another inch or two of soil on top of them! I was so excited to see these little shoots begin to appear, it... Continue Reading →
