The thundering voices of the Hebrew prophets are relevant during Advent - predictions of the changing and transformation of the world....
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid..."
Reading a sermon from St James's Piccadilly (a new Sunday morning ritual): Lucy Winkett suggests that we walk by faith - not by sight. That is how the unimaginable happens: the Berlin Wall falls; the British Prime Minister apologises for Bloody Sunday; apartheid ends in South Africa.
A wolf lying down next to a lamb is unthinkable.
What we need is persistent, hopeful imagination.
Clearing out the kitchen - these corks don't look like corks at all. Collected together in a jumble they have become something else altogether.
A storm in the night and the gable end of the neighbour's barn conversion - in mid construction - falls in.
Water has crept down into the cob walls since the roof was taken off. It's all very nervewracking, he tells me: ' We've put some fairy lights up to make things more Christmassy.'
The rain continues: a cleansing perhaps.
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid..."
Reading a sermon from St James's Piccadilly (a new Sunday morning ritual): Lucy Winkett suggests that we walk by faith - not by sight. That is how the unimaginable happens: the Berlin Wall falls; the British Prime Minister apologises for Bloody Sunday; apartheid ends in South Africa.
A wolf lying down next to a lamb is unthinkable.
What we need is persistent, hopeful imagination.
Clearing out the kitchen - these corks don't look like corks at all. Collected together in a jumble they have become something else altogether.
A storm in the night and the gable end of the neighbour's barn conversion - in mid construction - falls in.
Water has crept down into the cob walls since the roof was taken off. It's all very nervewracking, he tells me: ' We've put some fairy lights up to make things more Christmassy.'
The rain continues: a cleansing perhaps.
