Category: AdventWord
Responses to the annual Advent Word prompts supplied by https://adventword.org/en/home/
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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
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AdventWord 2024: Safety
Supporting Mental Health This Festive Season The word safety often brings to mind physical protection – keeping ourselves safe from harm, accidents, or danger. As we approach the festive season, it’s also essential to think about mental safety – the emotional and psychological security that helps us navigate life’s challenges, particularly during times of increased
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AdventWord 2024: Faithfulness
Faith fullness How can we live a life full of faith? Why do we try to do this? Quakers have a chapter called, ‘Faithful lives’ in Quaker Faith & Practice – our current book of discipline. The entries are often taken from Testimonies written after someone has died, they are more formally called, ‘Testimony to
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AdventWord 2024: Earnestly
The Importance of Being Earnest This is one of my favourite plays. I’ve worked behind the scenes twice, seen it live at least half a dozen times, and seen various movie versions more than that. Often because someone is foolish enough to tell me they’ve never seen it and then taken me up on an
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AdventWord 2024: Sprout
Growing Through Professional Development and Training The word sprout symbolizes growth and potential—a small, hopeful beginning that, with care and nurturing, can flourish into something remarkable. In the world of professional development, sprouting represents the first steps toward building new skills, strengthening teams, and achieving meaningful growth. Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Mindful Business
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AdventWord 2024: Redemption
Quaker Redemption What do you do in Meeting for Worship? This is quite a frequent question when someone discovers I’m a Quaker, and that a Meeting for Worship isn’t like their more usual experience of a religious service. It is an hour of silence, or stillness, or expectant waiting – however you want to describe
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AdventWord 2024: Abound
What is Abounding? Abound is not a word I use often in conversation. But when I saw this on the list of words for AdventWord this year, two quotations came to me which I’ve included below. Social Justice is for me linked to the idea of equality and being aware of my own privilege and
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AdventWord 2024: Humility
Humility is a noun Micah 6:8 is one of my favourite Bible verses. I always appreciate a simple to do list – even if they are very hard to do! I find that they link to the Quaker Testimonies to Equality, Simplicity, Truth and Peace strongly for me. Equality is a foundational belief for me
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AdventWord 2024
Introducing Our Advent Blog Series: Inspired by Forward Movement’s #AdventWord This Advent season, we are thrilled to introduce our annual special blog series inspired by Forward Movement’s AdventWord campaign—a global invitation to pause, reflect, and find deeper meaning through a daily word. Each day during Advent, the MBS #team will share personal reflections, thought-provoking insights,
