Author: Wendrie Heywood
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AdventWord 2024: Mercy
Mercy is Undeserved If you’ve been reading along you may recognise this photo. I’ve shared before in this year’s humility post, that this is one of my favourite Bible verses. I’ve even talked about humble and reflected on this verse in an AdventWord post back in 2019. One of the reasons I enjoy this annual
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AdventWord 2024: Love
Love is a Verb The word LOVE is quite odd. People often treat it as if it is a noun, or a pronoun if they’re in the habit of calling you ‘love’. But of course in English we use the word love for many many things. You may have heard that the Ancient Greeks have
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AdventWord 2024: Trust
Trust is a Tricky Word Can you have trust without truth is a question I remember asking teenagers which caused a long debate. They decided no – because if you have trust in something that isn’t true then it’s not really trust, but something else. This was long before ‘fake news’ and social media’s continual
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AdventWord 2024: Rejoice
A Weary World Rejoices We’re almost half way through Advent today! As well as this AdventWord daily posting habit I have enjoyed Kate Bowler’s annual Seasonal devotionals, both Lent and Advent. This year’s is called ‘The Weary World Rejoices’ and you can download it by clicking on the picture-> Kate Bowler’s 2024 Advent Devotional Kate
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AdventWord 2024: Proclaim
Proclaiming the Everyday: Celebrating Life’s Small Wins In a world that often highlights big milestones, it’s easy to forget the power of small wins. It’s these everyday accomplishments – no matter how minor they may seem that can boost our energy, improve our mindset, and keep us moving forward. To proclaim the everyday is to
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for Yarn
A Good Yarn Firstly, in the last couple of A-Z blogs I’ve talked about reviewing your organisation and how you communicate with each other and further afield. Following this, I will refocus this time and talk about oral or verbal history and how that can enhance the meeting. In the last few years, I’ve been
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AdventWord 2024: Salvation
Salvation is a tricky word Quakers are remarkably quiet about Salvation – there are only a few references in Quaker Faith & Practice (the book of discipline for Britain Yearly Meeting) and a quick internet search will show a similar lack of discussion. We are more concerned in our own transformation, and how that plays
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AdventWord 2024: Joy
Joy to the World I’m sure I’m not the only person who when they think of that phrase hear it sung, or indeed have trouble not starting to sing the carol. I like that this beloved hymn was written by a rebellious son, Isaac Watts, who complained to his father that current church music didn’t
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AdventWord 2024: Splendour
To see the splendour of the universe Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI This is a marvellous world, full of beauty and splendour; it is also an unrelenting and savage world, and we are not the only living things prone to dominate if given the chance. In
