Our contemplation of the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob reinforces the ways in which we are heirs of the promise given to them, steeped in that same tradition and covenant.

The things that are of God will wait for you to process your thoughts, will wait for you to seek assurance, perhaps from others, that this is indeed a path to pursue.

The stories we tell not only help us to make sense of the world but are fundamental in shaping that world

I ask each of you today, “to what should we compare our own generation?” Does anything satisfy us?

Eternal life is a free gift from God, sheer grace. When we take up little acts of compassion .... we aren’t earning that free gift but announcing it.

God’s blessing is always bigger than we imagine, always at work to enlarge our flawed living out of the blessing.

When we step into God’s hospitality we risk being challenged and changed.

(T)urn and look at where God is at work, in the ordinariness of lives lived, faithfully, unfaithfully, successfully and disastrously, peacefully, chaotically and everything in between and around."

If God has a favourite colour, it is tartan!

At Pentecost, God creates a people whose purpose is to live out forgiveness, to live out the generosity of starting afresh.

People see the injustice and they want to challenge, want things to change. But is it achieved by making a lot of noise? Is it achieved by building on shared negativity and a shared enemy?

The blame game which now passes for so much political and societal discourse, indicates above all an anxiety, a fear, a dis-ease, a broken web of society, that is larger than anything it is in the gift of politicians alone to answer.