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Hope & Expectation
20th January 2016

There is an expectation throughout the Christian story and faith that journeying through the darkness is not the end. Whilst experiencing the anguish of current suffering, there is a belief that this is a state of incompleteness, of something better to come. Marika Rose writes on the nature of hope and how it requires a trust beyond ourselves: “What better symbol could there […]

Now and Not Yet: Mini Expectations
18th December 2015

Reflections for Advent, No. 18 Image above: Kuba Ryniewicz, Mini Expectations 2015 All of our lives are in God’s hand, nothing is beyond the tenderness of God’s touch. Not the things that we hold up high for all to see. Not the things we hold close in the quiet of our hearts. God knows all […]