Author: Jonny N

  • A harvest reflection

    I wrote the following reflection for a the lead up to the lord’s supper at the harvest event we had last night. We sow seeds, but we did not create them. We plant them in the ground; a soil we did not form. The rain nourishes it, with waters we did not produce. The sun…

  • Imagination and the role of the artist

    This Image is a visual response to a collection of beautiful images created by my brother Paul. “Why is our world beautiful, and what are we as Christians to do about the fact that our world is beautiful? Why is our world ugly, and what are we as Christians to do about the fact that our…

  • Celebration and Value

    What we celebrate determines what we value and reflects what we believe. (I’m sure I’m quoting or paraphrasing someone here). We celebrate birthdays because we believe in life and value the existence of friends and relatives. We celebrate weddings because we value loving-committed relationships and believe in family. We celebrate the birth of a baby…

  • Reality and Hope

    It’s taken me a while to continue the series of post that have stopped off at points of pain, hope and the prophetic imagination. My eldest brother has wonderfully distilled Brueggemann’s thesis as follows: In his book The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann identifies two modes of Old Testament prophets. The first is the message of future…

  • A prayer for the blessed life

    The following is a Franciscan Prayer I stumbled on: May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.…

  • Energizing Visions

    I ended the last post with a couple of quotes from Henri Nouwen concerning eschatological dreams and visions of harmony. Here’s a quick reminder: These visions… offer us hope when we are close to despair, courage when we are tempted to give up on life, and trust when suspicion seems the more logical attitude. Without…

  • Loving conversation

    A few thoughts are coming together here, but need to be fleshed out more. I’m thinking about how we love one another in the way we speak and converse. First from my brothers blog ‘reimagining science’: “…we have a tendency to think that when we speak, we are just transferring information. However, it’s all a lot…

  • The person I become

    The Next-Wave has an interesting interview with Todd Hunter this month. What stuck me about the quote below is how it fits other thoughts mentioned on this blog — such as Mother Teresa’s quote: “We are called to be faithful, not successful”. This though fits with a previous note — we are invited  to ‘enter’ and ‘receive’…

  • Reflection: Psalm139

    You are there before me Each moment Is me arriving Into your present Into your Presence You are there before me As I pass from one moment to the next I constantly arrive in you I find myself again I find myself In you Each moment A newness in you You — before me And…

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