Toggie Tales

Tag-Teaming with the Bishop

Last night was fun. Throughout this week, St Matthews, Triangle and All Saints churches in Ipswich have been hosting a series of prayer events in an effort to deepen their prayer lives, and I drove up last night to join in with these new friends, and to do a tag-team-talk with Bishop Simon Barrington-Ward. The Bishop spoke about the Jesus Prayer, and I told some stories about 24-7 prayer, and we did a bit of Q&A as well.

Pause at the Start of the Year

Like many of my friends, I receive the Moravian Daily Text email in my inbox every day (we also have bedside flip-over calendar version, thanks to the Andersons). I try to allow it to interrupt my day, to force a pause, a moment of reflection - some days I find this easier than others, I'll admit. The list of things that I feel I 'need to do' sometimes makes it hard to pause, but I do try. Pausing - stopping, looking, listening, thinking - helps me to hear the whisper of the Holy Spirit amongst the inharmonious chorus of other voices. (Some are more inharmonious than others!)