“STAY ANGRY” OR IS THERE ANOTHER WAY?
Handing in of the Healthy Planet Healthy People petition at COP26 COP 26, the latest in the annual series of Conferences of world leaders to deal with climate change is being held in Glasgow in Scotland and hosted by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. It has...
DAY BY DAY
Some years ago “Day by Day” was our theme song for the year, a simple little song, a real prayer: "Dear Lord three things I pray, To see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly.” Today it is as relevant as ever. The SA Local elections...
PRAYERS FOR BEREAVEMENTS AND LOSS
A Family Bereavement Prayer. God our Father, we remember in prayer those we have loved and had a special place in our hearts and in our lives and are now no longer here with us. We thank you, Lord, for the time you have given us to share together the gift of life. ...
NOVEMBER OVERVIEW: LOSS AND FAMILY ENDINGS.
November is traditionally a month when the Church prays for those who have died. While that is very valuable there is much more to loss, even to loss through death and family endings. Loss is inevitable in life and comes in many forms; death, divorce, or in less...
HEALTHY PEOPLE, HEALTHY PLANET or vice versa?
Doesn’t our focus move from one to the other; people and planet? When it’s election time we do focus more on peoples’ needs but then COP26 is happening at the same time as our 1 November local election. COP 26 is mostly focusing on the planet, but on behalf of the...
WWJD IN SOUTH AFRICA ON 1 NOVEMBER 2021?
(In case you don’t know, WWJD stands for “What Would Jesus Do?) How does one discuss an important topic like voting, but maybe also a sensitive one, in families? For many families, it might not even have been discussed over the years, with us just...
DIVERSITY IN OUR WORLD OF FAMILIES
I'm engaged in some research on family diversity for a project, but became distracted by the opening event of COP 15, THE BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE, part 2 of the UN international conference on biodiversity, which has just opened in China. It is one of the two...
SQUARING UP IN THE NUMBERS GAME.
I was mulling over what it is about numbers. It could be power, energy, influence, safety or strength and possibly even weakness. Who first discovered numbers and counting? Researchers state that around 20 000 years ago there is some evidence that counting by...
OCTOBER, FAMILY ON MISSION. monthly theme overview
OCTOBER. Family on Mission. Every single family of any description, from a human one-parent family, to the ancient colossuses of trees in our forests, and the tiniest of creatures in the sea, has a role to play to sustain our world, as a family of families. We,...
wHOSE CREATION IS IT ANYWAY?
Today only scraps of the human consciousness recognize God acting to restore and heal the Earth. We have forgotten that we live in the household of God, the oikos, the Beloved Community. Our fundamental interconnectedness has been at best forgotten, at worst...
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