Tag: #AdventWord
#AdventWord posts with MBS team members responses to AdventWord. AdventWord is an international community with an inspirational online Advent calendar featuring a daily prompt word selected from the Sunday Lectionary readings.
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AdventWord 2023: Presence
Today’s word Presence has so many applications, from a state of existence to a presence in a place that is not seen. Either way, presence is something for me and probably for a lot of people, that is comforting. Wellbeing and mindfulness are now so recognised in society and whilst these are things to always
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AdventWord 2023: Hidden
If you read my blogs last year, you’ll already know that I spend a lot of my life thinking about the stories we’re not allowed to tell. The things we’re taught to keep hidden. Masking neurodivergence, closeting our romantic and sexual orientations (or lack thereof), plastering a front over our health issues (temporary or chronic)…
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AdventWord 2023: Wind
AdventWord 2023: Wind As I write this my conservatory office is being buffeted by gusts of wind, the trees outside swaying and branches scraping, as well as losing leaves which I can hear spattering against the roof along with rain. It’s dark, so I can’t see much outside, but I can hear it. I know tomorrow
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AdventWord 2023
Introducing #AdventWord 2023 It’s that time of year that we love at MBS, the start of Advent allows us to introduce our special annual blog series – #AdventWord. This year the MBS team have taken inspiration from Forward Movement’s list of AdventWords to bring you a thought or inspiration for the day. The series runs
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AdventWord 2022: Emmanuel
“My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and
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AdventWord 2022: Birth
I’m going to be cheeky and talk about REbirth instead. Of course, depending on the school(s) of philosophy you ascribe to, you might believe that there is no difference. And you may well be right. Because while the general concept of “rebirth” in my culture is about one-off, landmark incidents (generally having an epiphany and
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AdventWord 2022: Choose
Choose to be kind… There are many things in life we can’t change, but everything else is something we choose. Sometimes it is hard to know which elements are a choice and which are the only realistic path and so not really a choice at all. Often we look at others and assume they have
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AdventWord 2022: Obedience
I think I have wasted a great deal of my life waiting to be called to some great mission which would change the world. I have looked for important social movements. I have wanted to make a big and important contribution to the causes I believe in. I think I have been too ready to
