As I settle down to write this blog after a few days of prayer and reflection the sun is still shining upon us, though much needed rain is forecast. I hope you have been able to enjoy this extraordinary time of good weather wherever you may have been during August? As you can see, I […]
Seasons My life is at a time of major transitions at the moment – events that remained vague and distant for years have now become reality and our whole family is adjusting to new reality and uncertainty, including a temporary complete loss in income. It has given me time to reflect on life, get more […]
Become the Person that God Created You to Be Bishop Mark, Kathryn and Hennie For we are God’s workmanship [work of art], created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10 NIV). The 14th June was my ordination as priest, which means that I can […]
Not Alone Dear St Mark’s and Friends, As you may know I have been unwell this year. This is something, like many other people, I find hard. I found it hard to not do anything and I found it hard to ‘put down work’. I had unfounded and ridiculous fears like: ‘Everything would fall apart […]
I write this May blog less than a week after Easter when we celebrated Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. On Thursday I did an assembly, together with Matthew Poynton, at Lache Primary School explaining to the children the Easter Story. As the children were leaving a young girl aged about 8 came up and said, […]
Changing Seasons Life is a journey where we go through different seasons. When we started walking with Jesus will be different for each one of us. As we grow as Christians we seek to follow Christ throughout our daily lives, in our work, family and church life and all else that we do. Last time […]
Encounter God In a recent trip to the library, one of my daughters chose a bunch of craft books to bring home instead of stories for a bit of a change. We sat down to read the other night before bed and she pulled one of these craft books out of her bag. We were […]
The Joy is in the Journey Dear St Mark’s and Friends, I recently read a news article on the secret of happiness. *Spoiler alert* the author’s conclusion was that there is no secret to happiness. I have to say, that although I wasn’t necessarily expecting to agree with whatever he came up with (as for […]
Ancient to Modern Recently, I’ve been intrigued to watching a few videos about AI-reconstruction of historical figures from paintings and sculptors. Before you know it, you have a real-life person on the screen in front of you! I was amazed – take a look yourself. Suddenly someone who I have only read about becomes […]
The season of Advent started yesterday, as did the first day of winter. As many of you will know I struggle with the winter months, and I am always sad that Advent is kidnapped by Christmas. I can understand why people are keen to put up their Christmas trees and sparkly lights inside and out, […]
