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Friday 20th January 2023 I am not sure how long it is appropriate to wish one's friends "Happy New Year', but as this is the first blog...
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- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
Curious blessing: the blessing is ours
For the last time, this Advent, we gather our week’s blessings, and declare them together: May we be willing to receive the unexpected...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 22, 2022
- 4 min
Curious blessings: finding a king
Image: The Other Wise Man by Ancell Stronach ‘You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Curious blessings: gathering the graces
“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2:19: The wise men, we read, left their encounter with the...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min
Curious blessings: when the gift is for those who give
Image: Dream of the Magi by Gislebertus “When they [the Seekers of Wisdom (Magi)] saw the star rising in the East, they jumped with joy,...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
Curious blessings: when a gift is a question mark
“When they [the Seekers of Wisdom (Magi)] saw the star rising in the East, they jumped with joy , and with glad hearts they followed...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Blessing in the darkness: the blessing is ours
Today we gather the week’s blessings, and declare them together: May we find in the darkness, a blessing. May we know ourselves held, by...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
Blessing in the darkness: the companionship of God
Image: St Enoch and her son St Mungo by Smug **CONTENT WARNING: contains brief reference to sexual assault/rape** Wherever we are, there...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
Blessing in the darkness: finding God in the shadows
‘Advent begins in the dark’, writes Fleming Rutledge. In the book of Genesis, we are told that all of creation also began in the same way...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 13, 2022
- 4 min
Blessing in the darkness: Herod and blessing as solidarity
On the 16th September 2022, twenty-two year-old, Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Iran, after having been arrested by the morality...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 12, 2022
- 4 min
Blessing in the darkness: Herod and blessing in times of trouble
“It was during the days of bad-hearted Chief Looks Brave (Herod) that the Chosen (Jesus) was born in the village of House of Bread...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 9, 2022
- 1 min
Honouring reality: the blessing is ours
Today we gather the week’s blessings, and declare them together: May you, when all is not as you had hoped or dreamed, hear the...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 8, 2022
- 3 min
Honouring reality: Horatio Spafford’s blessing in sorrow
Image: Horatio Spafford “May you, when you stand in the ashes of what could have been, find God standing with you, speaking your name.”...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Honouring reality: blessing in the ruins
Image: The Ruins (Inner Voices) by James Tissot As we reflect on Joseph who was blessed precisely because his life didn’t go as he...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 6, 2022
- 3 min
Honouring reality: Joseph and blessing when our hopes are dashed
When I was 22 years old I made a list of all the things I hoped to do before I was 30. It said: Live on Orkney for a year Live in Dublin...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
Honouring reality: Joseph and blessing when everything goes wrong
‘He Gives Sons (Joseph) was a man of honour. He did not want to bring her trouble and open shame, so he thought about secretly releasing...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Making the ordinary sacred: The blessing is ours
Today we gather the week’s blessings, and declare them together: May your ordinary life be freshly illuminated for you, seen in the kind...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
Making the ordinary sacred: Mary, Mechthild and the blessing of the body
It was a time of great change. Politics was shifting, gender roles were evolving, financial systems were being questioned, and people...
Soul Food Edinburgh
- Nov 30, 2022
- 2 min
Making the ordinary sacred: Mary and the blessing of the breath
As we reflect on Mary who was blessed in the midst of her ordinary life, I find myself pondering some questions , and invite you to join...
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