Miracles, Disappointment and Reminders
In the film The Miracle Club, Lily, Chrissie, Eileen and Dolly head off to Lourdes looking for, as you might expect, a miracle or two. Dolly’s son Daniel has never spoken and …
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Emmaus Mist
Life is so like the Emmaus road,Our sights set on the wrong destination,When Jesus starts to walk alongside us,Hidden in plain sight,Doing his best to open our eyes.The lamb challenging …
Feet
How beautiful are the feet of him Who brings good news, Who walks amongst the rejected, Who sits with the lonely and saddened, Who stands with us in all things, …
Some Doors
The other day I walked the path up from Lynmouth to Lynton in North Devon, and along the way there were various handwritten poems, posted beside the path. It gave …
Letters
Not a tidy page of well-formed script,copper plate writing,ordered and perfectly formed,but instead a wonderful jumble of words,a page of unique, untidy, precious scribbles,and half formed hopes and ideas,the truth …
Fire, Water and the Eyes of Heaven
Elemental is tale of fire and water, a sort of Romeo and Juliet story. Ember is a fire elemental who helps her immigrant parents run Firebrand, the local store and hangout in …
Food, Friendship and The Old Oak
The Old Oak is a pub in a village in the North east. It’s on its last legs in a community struggling to make ends meet. Then a group of …
The Man With The Hat
The Man With No Hat strolls into town, and one thing is instantly clear. He is different, aloof alone. Everyone else has a hat, everyone else is moving frenetically, everyone …
Unclean
She knows that she smells, the fear almost chokes her. Knowing what will happen if she is spotted in this crowd. She can almost feel the burden of shame pressing …
Be My Vision
Please be my vision, when the day’s fears start,Keep me together when falling apart,Help me to hold on in deep darkest night,When darkness comes calling, please be my light. Help …
A Haunting in Venice
The famous detective Hercules Poirot declares in this film that he has lost all faith in any signs of the soul or an afterlife. He has seen too much suffering …
Trees that bend…
In the film my Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 a Greek family return from America to Greece to the place where their father used to live, to try and locate …
This Day & The Earth
This Day I lay this day before you,May it be under you hand,And under your protection,Under your guidance and care.Filled with your light and love,With moments of your whispers and …
What if things had gone like this with Mary…
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. …
Calling
Calling In all those things we have to doThat don’t feel like a calling at all…We are called.In the mundane and regular and repetitive,In the work-a-day, every-day, Groundhog Day things,Again …
The Equaliser 3
Robert McCall is a highly competent and hugely motivated action guy, a man who goes looking for trouble so he can sort it out. In this movie he ends up …
Sheep
I’m glad I’m a sheep, it explains my foolish behaviour, Wandering off, getting caught in the hedges, It gives me an excuse for following the crowd, And chasing after supposedly …
Resistance
This film tells the story of the famous mime artist Marcel Marceau and a group of his friends, who rescued hundreds of children during World War Two and helped them …
Prayer & In Him
Prayer We shall do our best to pray for change,And to pray for love,To pray for hope, and to ask for hearts to awaken.We shall pray for life and resurrection,We shall …
The Expurgated Bible Bookshop
Morning, is this the expurgated Bible Bookshop? Yes, what would you like? Well, which Bibles do you have? Ooh lots. The ones with the violence taken out, the ones with …