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Called by your Name
I have found Thomas Lawson! You probably didn’t know he was missing … his name came up when I was investigating the past of one of our...
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- Feb 15
Heart Strain
Anyperson enjoyed singing hymns, and recently a line from one of their favourites kept coming back: ‘take from our souls the strain and...
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- Feb 7
No Condemnation
One discovers a myriad of interesting of interesting facts while researching Community history. For example, I knew that the Norwich...
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- Jan 26
Heart looking
One passage that always amuses me is the one where Samuel anoints David as next king over Israel (1 Samuel 16:1-17). Samuel is presented...
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- Jan 17
Calling
At the end of November, I wrote a piece about our past sisters (imaginatively entitled ‘Past Sisters’); last week I had an email from...
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- Jan 10
How do you?
They went straight to Jerusalem when they arrived in Judea, knowing a special child had been born, the King: where else would he be but...
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- Jan 6
Shining in a Dark Place.
There is a light shining in the darkness. However dark it feels, however much Covid seems as if it will affect our lives forever, however...
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- Dec 20, 2021
Vulnerably Calling
Christmas is coming; this will therefore be the last blog of 2021, the next one will appear in January 2022. As we approach Christmas,...
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- Dec 13, 2021
No Bags...
For our Community Advent retreat I normally join Srs Sheila and Elizabeth at Bungay. This year was going to be more complex to arrange...
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- Nov 30, 2021
Past Sisters
It was quite exciting, getting back to the library to access one of those ancestry websites on their computers. For various reasons, I...
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- Nov 22, 2021
Anticipating
Christmas is coming; it’s here in the shops, winter lights are going up, and Santa is arriving soon (it feels a bit early to have an...
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- Nov 15, 2021
Thrown Down
While reading this story, try to read as though you are the speaker (‘I’), rather than a third person. I saw a huge, grassy plain,...
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- Nov 10, 2021
Known
You know me. You know me through and through. You know the bits I like; You know the parts I hate; You know my wisdom; You know my...
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- Nov 3, 2021
All the Hallows
People used to think I was a ghost. As I took my early morning walk around the Convent in winter, dressed in a dark habit, with a black...
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- Oct 25, 2021
What are you seeking?
While reading a book recently, I came across the question ‘What are you seeking?’. Well, the proper answer is God. Isn’t that who we are...
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- Oct 21, 2021
Receive
How many Sparrows have you seen recently? I was spellbound one afternoon in Whitby when there where clouds of small birds (some, but not...
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- Oct 18, 2021
Harvested.
Dwelling at Ditchingham, we were very close to the land, to the yearly round of the farming year, and harvest meant actually that: the...
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- Oct 11, 2021
Saved
Michaelmas (September 29th) brought Sisters Sheila and Elizabeth to Norwich for a meeting, following which they were planning to see the...
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- Sep 29, 2021
Horrible?
Anyperson felt deep down that they were horrible; they could never get anything right, and were bound to mess up. It wasn’t pleasant to...
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- Sep 23, 2021
Our.
Have you ever prayed the Lord’s Prayer … slowly? Taking time to ponder and really pray the words? It’s an amazingly powerful prayer, when...
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