building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Join us this weekend as we come together to let the children break the brightly colored piñata. While they take turns trying to open it and discover the treats hidden inside, we celebrate more than just a fun game. The piñata’s bright colors and the... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Thank you, Lauren, for your meditation, “When God is (or seems) silent.” Prayer is something I, too, grapple with and I am intrigued by Pete Grieg’s book. Despite my years, I am far from wise. I tend often to approach prayer as a small child... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In recent months I’ve been pondering over the theme of unanswered prayer and how from a Christian perspective we are to approach this subject, as well as how to answer other people in our lives who are struggling with this question. For my last birthday,... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Who thinks that we only need God?Who thinks that we only need other humans? Recently, I read the poem Prometheus by Goethe (German / English). For the first time, I read it as a teenager but have read it many times since then. Let me... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- I spent the autumn holidays with my aunt, her husband, and my cute baby cousin. They live near Mannheim. All of my relatives live further away, some in Germany, some in England. But still, we are always in contact. Every 3 weeks we have a... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- I am a toe. Not just any toe, mind you, I’m a Big toe. To be precise, I’m the big toe on the left foot of a young girl named Caroline. Life as a toe is not idyllic. We bear most of the body’s weight,... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 One of the prayers that has always intrigued and encouraged me is a beautiful... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. I Chronicles 16:34 It’s that time of year again when across the world we are reminded to be thankful. Throughout history harvest time has been a time cultures have said thank you... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It is a fact: Nobody likes criticism. No one likes to be judged. Working my whole life on: a) QI (Quality improvement) with a strong focus on monitoring and evaluation and, b) as health lecturer at the university, I have been implementing continuous evaluations. Either... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Eighty years ago, on Sept. 23, 1944, British submarine H.M.S. Trenchant torpedoed and sank the German U-boat U 859 in the approaches to Penang. Among those killed that day was my father’s 20 year-old cousin Fritz. I remember hearing about this cousin from my childhood,... Continue Reading →
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