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‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few’ As Autumn draws on, we witness in the formation of seeds, the gathering of the forces that will endure, enabling the next cycle of growing, fruiting and harvest. And in the ripening fruit we receive the gift of nature, which sustains our life.  The ancient cultures of

15th August, 2020 Dear FriendsIn the German language the concept or word ‘Heimat’ has played a definitive role in that culture spanning many centuries. It is not a word that one can easily translate into English; we might render it ‘our home or homestead’ which is close but not quite what it means. In Russia

Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

In our early childhood we are most happy when we are with our family, embedded in its warmth and security. Even in our childhood we have a growing urge to experience freedom, to escape the nest and start looking more independently at the world around us. Come adolescence we grab the first opportunity to spread

John 14: 23-31 The heavens and the earth are in a beautiful relationship with each other. Celebrating Ascension was to renew our awareness of this relationship. Christ weaves and lives in both realms. The plants and trees are visible signs of the harmonious relationship of the earth and the sky. Human beings are a visible