building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- On Saturday, June 29, there was a match in the European Football Championship. Germany played against Denmark. The game was interrupted in the 35th minute due to a thunderstorm. At first glance this seems bad, but at second glance you notice many good things: e.g.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Athira, one of the youngsters who came regularly to church came up to us recently with a not so common request. She was having her post graduate degree award function at the University of Freiburg and wanted us to be there with her, and for... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In our world today it is easy to fall into a guilt trip since so many voices fill our heads with thoughts of inadequacies. We are bombarded with advertisements in how we can change our lives for the better if we just buy their product... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My last meditation was called “Pausing for Presence” … you may remember that last year I took an unpaid leave from my job for nine months to recover – physically and mentally- and to have a rest from many demands and deadlines which had taken... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The Special Research Consortium on Heroism and the Heroic that I have been a part of for the past 10 years is closing its doors, having run its full course. For the past four years, my own project has been working hard finding ways to... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Vulnerable??? -- It feels like an expression of weakness in times of armament, too high a risk in a world of arrows of criticism and superiority, no good choice when it is important to be untouchable, independent and strong. Why would I make myself vulnerable,... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- On our recent church Weekend Away in Alsace, Geoff and Marie-Louise Read shared with us some key insights on the topic of “joy”. They outlined 12 ideas about what joy encompasses and its role in our lives; they also reminded us that besides being created... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- I’m not sure how many of you have seen Les Miserables, but it’s a story that I’ve been thinking about a good deal over the last week. There is one scene in particular that I have been coming back to: the one in which Cosette... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- “Solitude, I’ll walk with thee […] And follow in thy steps to heaven.”[1]John Clare I’m planning my annual hike in the Scottish Highlands for mid-June. I hope to do a week’s hike alone, at the end of another full and frenetic academic year. When I... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Caution: this meditation may cause dissent…. I am in the US. Pondering topics for my meditation, I considered the rebirth of spring and the beauty of God’s creation. The promise that comes every year and replenishes our souls with reassurance of God’s goodness. I considered... Continue Reading →
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