And so it begins….Advent. The lead up to Christmas. You don’t need me to tell you how different this Christmas is going to be, after what has been the most challenging, unsettling, and destabilising of years. How is your soul this week? What do you most need? This is the time to be slow. I…
Courage to choose hope
Hope. What a word to be using just now. After long months of incremental losses, disappointment and joy-sucking restrictions, there is a general feeling of weariness and heaviness around. This week we can have courage to choose hope because a new word is filtering into our news and consciousness – not pandemic, nor lockdown,…
Choosing Fairtrade hope for Lent
Spring is finally in the air, and with it – hope. Hope for new life, for colour to return to what has been a drab and dank landscape, hope for lighter evenings and warmer weather. Every year at this time, I marvel at the miracle of spring and the vast and complex cosmic spreadsheet that…