In his pattern for prayer Jesus taught us to begin our relationship with God using the words “Our Father”. (Matthew 6:9). Because we use the “Lord’s Prayer” so often we can easily take those two introductory words for granted. Our relationship with our human parents changes as we grow up. As infants and then young...
Reflecting on our work as Chaplaincy Volunteers On Tuesday 7th March I, along with about 15 others, attended a time of Fellowship and Reflection in the Chapel at Royal Stoke. As we had not met in this way since before the C-19 Pandemic it was an opportunity to reconnect with fellow Chaplaincy Volunteers. We were...
Meeting with Jesus is what Easter is all about. But it isn’t simply a historic event in the sense of being in the past rather than something that happens in the present. At one of our schools, we have a beautifully simple phrase that the school says together. It’s simple and profound, rather than simplistic....
In October 2022 my daughter Jane, who works at ‘Glasgow Life’, was asked to welcome King Charles 3rd to the re-opening of ‘The Burrell Collection’, on Glasgow South Side, after a £65m refurbishment. She had spent 7 years working on the project and now the great day was in sight! The King, on his first...
“This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.” Do you remember this chorus popular in the 1960’s? During the first lockdown, we had many days which seemed very similar, some people went to work and some had Zoom or Teams meetings but our families...