SANCTUARY FIRST ALMOST READY TO GO!
SF Can you pass the word around that we are looking for churches, or even a few passionate individuals who would like to partner us with the SANCTUARY FIRST initiative . We are confident that we have three partners willing to run with us for the launch of the project. However the success of the vision requires that we start to enlist people all round the country and indeed the world who will catch the vision of Sanctuary First. I've been looking through the website...
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I've been thinking about rivers recently, well the truth is I think about the river everyday. My house looks out on the River Forth. The thing is the river never stays the same it changes everyday in life. I believe its such a great privilege to live so close to a river. There are so many exciting analogies about tour spiritual life , to be learned from a river. Here's a picture of the River Tweed in full flow this afternoon, Monday 7th September.
A couple of...
I'm trying to kept a promise I made to someone in India when I was there a few weeks ago. So I'm in Edinburgh this afternoon on church business meeting people at the central church offices. Its a busy place, even more so just at the end of the Festival. Its a cold damp lunchtime. I walk along George Street and suddenly I realise I've just walked past a beggar who was sitting on the street outside a restaurant. I was past him before it registered. Then you have this...
I've been round this corner- a million times,
In different places
You can't hide- even refuse eye contact
No one is invisible!
They've seen me again.
How do they do it ?
Spot me
Clock me
Shock me
Its always the same familiar faces
Why?
Standing
Sitting
Staring
Back - looking at me
Looking for the crumbs from my table.
They've been people on this corner
For a million nights.
hammering, breaking stones,
being totally...