It’s almost Christmas! December the 15th we had our joint Christmas service and it was a joy to worship Christ with brothers and sisters from all over the world and to do it in 4 languages. Then it was a joy to show a friend and his son around our city, it really is a great place. If you visit I recommend a stop at Fotografiska.
Kids have finished their school for the year, Emma has finished her work for the year, my mum will arrive from the UK on Christmas Eve – everything has that end of year feel to it. Not a bad thing.
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This Week’s Postings
I’ve kept writing!
- How we ran a service in 4 languages
- Refresh my soul, make me wise, give me joy
- Where, O leader, is your well?
From The Archives
We could recognise that power, responsibility, creation, cultivation, care & defence might all manifest differently, be experienced differently and result in a differing range of impacts when expressed by a man than those very same qualities when manifested in a woman. We have differing impacts in different areas and these differences are not inherently a bad thing or something in need of fixing, as French says ‘attempting to impose a leveling sameness between the sexes will always be both culturally impossible and individually destructive.’
I hope you enjoy your weekend. Do let me know if there’s something here you appreciated or if you see something you think would be worth sharing, let me know!
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