The Home I Found in Church

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The feeling of being home versus being a visitor. Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt like “I am home, i am where i belong”. The other day, in my Religion Course, the question “what does the church mean to me?” was... Continue Reading →

When Darkness Flees

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In recent days, when I was discouraged about possibly losing a job which I love, my circumstances were put into perspective in the form of a visit from a family friend from Jerusalem. This Israeli medical doctor updated us about all the collective trauma going... Continue Reading →

Book of Discoveries

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In my youth group at the Protestant church in Waldkirch, we looked at this book and read several stories from it: ICONS – Heroes of Faith from the Bible and Today, published by Herder. It mainly deals with lesser-known stories but also includes some better-known... Continue Reading →

Second  Chances

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Now that I am retired, I am often away traveling.  To visit our son and his family  in Cologne,  to travel to the US, on holiday.  Recently I was en route to the US for the wedding of a cousin (first wedding...at 74!). My trip... Continue Reading →

Worship in Spirit and in Truth

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- “God is spirit, and those that worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24) Many years ago, I heard this verse chanted in a recording of an Ash Wednesday Evensong. Twelve years later, in 2006, I almost died in a taxi accident... Continue Reading →

Hope in Uncertainty

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- This past season has been one of the hardest of my life. My closest person (my father, or as I call him, my Baba yes with a B and not P) recently went through heart surgery. By God’s mercy, he came through it and is... Continue Reading →

Personal Relationship with God

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Having a community of wonderful, diverse, and loving people is truly a blessing.To be there for one another, to love your neighbour as yourself, to uplift and encourage eachother as a church is a beautiful way of living indeed.As much as we excel in this... Continue Reading →

Thinking about Christmas

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- 'Thinking about Christmas'... A curious title for a Midweek Meditation at this time of year perhaps – or perhaps not. Christmas likely seems to you far away, in time and space. Chronological time certainly tells us that next Christmas is now almost as far away... Continue Reading →

Silence is a language of God

--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Across the world we now have driverless vehicles. Visibly there is no one in control but in reality, the entire maneuvering is designed and directed by a well set up control system guided of late artificial intelligence. People who travel in those vehicles trust their... Continue Reading →

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