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Dwelling in Constraint, Rising in Praise

This week’s readings speak of exile, endurance, and unexpected healing. Jeremiah writes to those displaced, urging them not to resist the place of their constraint, but to inhabit it fully: build homes, plant gardens, seek the peace of the city. It’s not a call to resignation, but to rootedness—to a kind of holy dwelling, even Continue reading
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Worship. Not Warfare.

Militarised Christianity undermines democracy. True discipleship forms citizens through worship, conscience and compassion—not drills, ranks or recruitment. The Church serves best without an army. Continue reading
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Measured Mercy Matters

Practices that bind memory, restraint, and neighbour-love into daily life These readings gather around a single truth: faith is lived where pattern meets compassion. Memory, measure, and mercy shape a life that keeps careful watch over small things while refusing to harden the heart. Ordered Longing The soul that remembers ancestral faith carries both devotion Continue reading
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Faithful in exile

Grief, grace, and quiet endurance in the margins of scripture and life Reflection on the Sunday readings. Jerusalem sits empty. The psalmist weeps by foreign waters. Timothy is urged to rekindle a gift that feels fragile. The apostles beg for more faith, and Jesus answers with a story about a servant doing what is asked, Continue reading
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Sacred Rhythms of Humility

Creation Speaks and Law Revives Psalm 19 greets us like an Irish dawn—each mountain and breeze declaring God’s handiwork. As someone on the autism spectrum and a dialysis patient, I find solace in repetition: the sunrise, the steady hum of the machine, the gentle lilt of birdsong. Like the psalmist, I delight in precepts that Continue reading

