Showing posts with label Birth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birth. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Green heart of the snowdrop

Green heart of the snowdropKate McIlhagga


Into a dark world
a snow-drop comes.
a benison of hope and peace
carrying within it a green heart
a symbol of God's renewing love
Come and inhabit our darkness
Lord Jesus Christ,
for dark and light
are alike to you.
May natures white candles of hope
remind us of your birth
and light our journey
through life and beyond.

Saturday, 24 December 2011

Welcome to Watchnight


Cortachy Church


Welcome to Watchnight. This evening we gather together in our local churches, here in Angus, for our annual Watchnight services. They traditionally start after 11pm and take us through midnight and into the wonders of Christmas morning.
Wherever you are reading and whenever midnight is for you - come join with us in spirit. Liz Crumlish calls us to gather for this hour:-

Come fresh from your revelry
or your loneliness
to find warmth and fellowship here
as we watch in the darkness
for the dawn of another Christmas

Know that you are welcome
just as you are
The baby who snuck into the stable
slips in here tonight
Can you see him?
Can you feel him?

Sense the beat of the wings of angels
brushing your cheek-
announcing to you this night
as they did 2000 years ago in Bethlehem
the good news
that God lives in love with us.
Liz Crumlish December 2011

Sunday, 18 December 2011

A mystery beyond






All creation is striving to bring forth a mystery beyond itself, 
a kingdom of peace and justice. 
The created world models it, 
the prophets foretell it, 
the psalmist celebrates it, 
and Jesus shows us what it looks like in reality. 
All of these invite us to let God’s kingdom come to birth in our own lives.

by Margaret Silf