In her Christmas Message, The Rt Reverend Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth comments that “One of the most remarkable facts about the Christmas story is that the whole event is so small and hidden and seemingly irrelevant. God came to us in the smallest of ways.” She reminds us that, it is in “our smallness, our hiddenness and our apparent irrelevance that God comes; and not just to us, but through us to the whole world. It’s in the small acts of kindness and compassion, the hidden gestures of generosity and selflessness, the seemingly irrelevant lives of goodness and faithfulness,… Read more »
Susannah
2 hours ago
Cherry Vann’s Christmas Message is precious – “one of the most remarkable facts about the Christmas story is that the whole event is so small and hidden” – and thank you, David, for flagging it up. It’s also apposite for me. I have decided to cease posting on Thinking Anglicans and other Christian pages because it’s no longer congruent with the call I feel to the hidden life and also, I realise it is damaging me psychologically. I am Carmelite in spirituality, and for 14 years now I have felt called to be hidden in prayer with my God. I… Read more »
So long Susannah, and thank you for your thoughtful contributions to what in some ways might almost be seen as a convent in itself. Your openmindedness has made it less of a closed community however. Blessings on all your journeys
In her Christmas Message, The Rt Reverend Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth comments that “One of the most remarkable facts about the Christmas story is that the whole event is so small and hidden and seemingly irrelevant. God came to us in the smallest of ways.” She reminds us that, it is in “our smallness, our hiddenness and our apparent irrelevance that God comes; and not just to us, but through us to the whole world. It’s in the small acts of kindness and compassion, the hidden gestures of generosity and selflessness, the seemingly irrelevant lives of goodness and faithfulness,… Read more »
Cherry Vann’s Christmas Message is precious – “one of the most remarkable facts about the Christmas story is that the whole event is so small and hidden” – and thank you, David, for flagging it up. It’s also apposite for me. I have decided to cease posting on Thinking Anglicans and other Christian pages because it’s no longer congruent with the call I feel to the hidden life and also, I realise it is damaging me psychologically. I am Carmelite in spirituality, and for 14 years now I have felt called to be hidden in prayer with my God. I… Read more »
So long Susannah, and thank you for your thoughtful contributions to what in some ways might almost be seen as a convent in itself. Your openmindedness has made it less of a closed community however. Blessings on all your journeys