tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post2393172680821330026..comments2024-02-28T16:57:47.055+00:00Comments on Diary of a Donkeybody: To my friends (part 1)Michael Wenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04756324780596609238noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-47228206712061491852014-04-03T18:33:31.484+01:002014-04-03T18:33:31.484+01:00"Prayer is about waiting and being ready to m..."Prayer is about waiting and being ready to meet the presence of Christ when he comes.... His Presence is where I least expect it, and sometimes it's where and when one is hurting most." Good.Michael Wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111619560360378627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-48716654300507136332014-02-23T12:54:22.964+00:002014-02-23T12:54:22.964+00:00I have been sent a very clear analysis of the Past...I have been sent a very clear analysis of the Pastoral Guidance which points up the inconsistencies and the hurt which it causes, here: http://www.acceptingevangelicals.org/2014/02/bishops-ban-clergy-from-same-sex-marriage/#comment-3852Michael Wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111619560360378627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-73833238300440770192014-02-20T20:17:54.462+00:002014-02-20T20:17:54.462+00:00Our Parish Priest made this comment in our Parish...Our Parish Priest made this comment in our Parish Bulletin on the feast of the presentation in the Temple.<br />"Father David’s comments on feast of the Presentation<br /><br /> I think that prayer is about waiting. When we pray, sometimes we walk on water, other times we sink like a stone! Sometimes we have a real sense of God's presence - other times we cannot even imagine that God exists! Other times we have a deep feeling of God’s love - then on another occasion we feel bored and are constantly looking at our watch. Perhaps we have a notion that prayer is always to be interesting, warm, bringing spiritual insight, and giving the sense that we are actually praying! It can be all these things at times - but for most of us not always or even often! Prayer is about waiting and being ready to meet the presence of Christ" when he comes.<br />I liked it because it seems to say it's OK to 'sink like a stone' which I do more often than anything else. But, waiting, and being ready to meet the presence of Christ is something to think about as, for me, anyway, His Presence is where I least expect it, and sometimes it's where and when one is hurting most.<br />leafyschroderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13473642621804634929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-43593992891589280102014-02-20T17:06:42.470+00:002014-02-20T17:06:42.470+00:00Thank you, Ann. You're right about the perplex...Thank you, Ann. You're right about the perplexities and hurts of life. As you'll have gathered my post was very much a response to them. I can't think that we should be adding to them, but it's altogether a tough one.Michael Wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111619560360378627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-3458656091573200872014-02-20T16:49:28.136+00:002014-02-20T16:49:28.136+00:00I am truly sorry for the sadness and pain caused b...I am truly sorry for the sadness and pain caused by your friends and their children being wounded.<br />Also for the hurt caused to your other friends.<br />Not long ago I read this and found it very comforting and encouraging in the midst of life's perplexities and hurts<br />"“Somewhere we fit into the great jigsaw puzzle, and without our fitting in, the universe isn’t complete.” (Laurence Freeman, Breaking the Cycle of Violence).<br />leafyschroderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13473642621804634929noreply@blogger.com