Words of Light and Hope from Sue Page LLM

Words of Light and Hope                                                                                                                                                                                    (Lent 4)   Mothering Sunday                                                                                                                                                                                March 10 th 2024                  Sue Page LLM

It is Lent! We are on the 4 th Sunday and we are
celebrating the Love and Wonder and ‘Ministry’ of
Mothers…their patience and hope and love for each of
their children
This Sunday we reflect on God as our Parent…….
And also our Saviour being born a baby…
Look at these words, one quote at a time, and think and
Ponder and Pray about God fulfilling His Loving
Parental Plan and Hope for each one of us………..
“ Faith is not absolute Certainty,
but a readiness to explore the Mystery.
It is not a method of finding all the answers,
but of living with the questions.
Like Hope it is an attitude of mind,
an ordination of the spirit.                                         Sidney Evans

Prisoners of Hope
I believe in the Sun even when it is not shining;
I believe in Love even when I cannot feel it;
I believe in God even when He is silent.                                                                                                                                                         A Jewish Prisoner ; written on the walls of his cell in Cologne Discovered after the 1939-45 war.

God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the Cross!
He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is
precisely the way, the only way, in which He is
with us and helps us. Scripture makes quite clear
that Jesus helps us, not by virtue of His
Omnipotence, but by virtue of His Weakness and
Suffering. The bible directs man to God’s
powerlessness and suffering;
only the Suffering God can help.!                                                                    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Silence makes us pilgrims
Silence guards the fire within…
Silence teaches us to speak                                                                               Henri Nouwen

The Living Truth is what I long to see.
I cannot lean upon what used to be !
So shut the bible up and show me how
The Christ you talk about is living now                                                          Sydney Carter

You sing, of course you sing, I can hear you
But make sure that your life sings
the same tune as your mouth.
Sing with your voices !
Sing with your lips !
Sing with your lives !
The Singer himself is the Song !                                                                      St Augustine