Latest Thought for the Week

This is the start of Christian Aid week, which focusses this year on Climate Justice, in Kenya and beyond.

Our HeartEdge friends at St John’s Waterloo have their annual Arts Festival in May and June before closing for a major restoration, their first since 1951.

It’s fair to say we’ve been thinking a lot about the nation state recently.

This Eastertide I’ve decided to take a deep honest look at my prayer life, which has felt a bit battered and bruised from this disorientating pandemic.

Having been in lockdown in one way or another for the last 12 months or so, our story to varying degrees has had moments of the heroic, tragic and comedic.

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair.” Pope John Paul II implored, “We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”

St Martin’s goes by many names which I sometimes believe can aggrandise us a little: The ‘Royal Parish Church’, (well there are some very uncomfortable antique royal chairs).

My boss in my last job was often heard to say with regard to a tricky issue “You can’t boil the ocean”.

This year I’m watching the steady increase in daylight hours with heightened interest, along with the appearance of the blue of iris flowers and the yellow of daffodils in my garden.