A new way

The Archbishop of Canterbury challenges us to look back to the monastic traditions as a new way of living.
His challenge comes as the world struggles with the issues of the Global Financial Crisis, climate change and so on.
As Christians we have a rich tradition of "community" which is based on mutual care, seeking the common good, and pursuing goals of peace and justice.
In the early chapters of the Acts of the Apostles we get an insight into how the first Christians lived.
A real challenge lay in how we might embrace these ideals in a very secular suburban world.
But just as the First century Christians turned the then world upside down, perhaps it is time for contemporary Christaians to turn our world upside down.
After all, we are the "resurrection people" - we have the Way, who is also Truth and Life!
Christ is Risen: Alleluia!

Pause a momnet

The A.F.L. Season has started once again. I used to love the footy. But somehow it is just not the same. Call me old fashioned if you like. I loved the days when club loyalty was paramount. When the players were committed to the team. Now with all the money, the draft and all of that - footy is more about money and business. Too many things are now measured in dollar terms. I guess we cannot turn back the clock. However, it would be nice to think that we could just enjoy things for their own sake.

Perhaps as we come to Holy Week and Easter, you can take time to stop, to reflect on these great moments and see what they might mean in your life.
The first Easter Day changed the world for ever; how will this Easter Day affect your Life?
Will it cause you to pause and think about the timeless values of love, peace, justice, compassion and joy?
Will you stop and think about your relationship with God?
Good Friday might cause us all to pause and think of the destructiveness of human sin, of how it sets one person against another, one nation against another.
Jesus' resurrection might once again tell us all of God's power, of God's healing, restorative love.

Take some time to ponder these things
God Bless you