REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 58: There’s a hole in my bucket! I have fond memories of singing campfire songs in the Scouts. Repetitive, question-and-answer songs like Found a peanut and There’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza were favourites. Last week I found myself…
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REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 56: New Year Security. With his nation at war King George VI ended his 1939 Christmas message with the words of Minnie Louise Hoskins: I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, give me a light…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 55: Christmas Visitors. I have always enjoyed visitors. Some, like my grand-father, were expected each Sunday for lunch. Others came unexpectedly, and even though they came bearing a bucketful of chokoes [nothing was ever thrown out in the 1960’s!] were [and…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 54: Voices from the past. The pandemic has brought challenges and opportunities. It has taught us to be grateful for what we have. One of the great blessings of life for us all, and certainly for those who are Christians, are…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 53: Sacrifice is essential for communal good. The Victorian politician’s comment: that Victorians have sacrificed a lot was true, especially in the light of their wonderfully improved covid-19 infection rates. Our lives are built on the sacrifice of others. Parents working…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 52: The world is costing me too dear! One of my abiding memories, for which I am exceedingly grateful, are stirring hymns, mainly from Golden Bells [Published by Scripture Union]. I can still remember the numbers of some, from the 1960’s…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 51: Secret things that lead to certainty. The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law [Deuteronomy 29:29]. What…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 50: …and everyman for himself! I still remember the great joy of an outing to the Saturday movies. It was there I heard the stirring cry of the 3 musketeers: one for all and all for one. Some years ago I was…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 49: Winners in advance! The various pandemic football seasons are done and dusted. The winners are happy, the vanquished hopefully over their losses, and the administrators, and State premiers, much relieved to have it finished. Of course there is still the…
REFLECTIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS: understanding and growing through the covid-19 challenge. Bishop Peter Brain Reflection 48: Perspective is everything. As the pandemic continues relentlessly, especially in nations entering winter, anxiety, anger and waves of dissent directed mainly at those in government for acting or failing to do so, grows. A friend remarked to me recently, who…