Stories April, May & June 2022AprilGordie Jackson·Follow3 min read·Apr 16, 2023--ListenShare1. My thoughts on a sermon, ‘How to case a church’Post from an old blog 9th October 2011medium.com2. What event in your life still speaks years after?I read an article this week in which the author spoke of an event 35 years ago that continues to speak to her. It got…gordiejackson.medium.com3. Our true beliefs show up in how we liveIn the conversation which followed the Global Meeting for Worship on Wednesday night the subject of healing arose…gordiejackson.medium.com4. Our true beliefs show up in how we liveIn the conversation which followed the Global Meeting for Worship on Wednesday night the subject of healing arose…gordiejackson.medium.com5. Holy week gives me the opportunity to feel griefWhile waiting for my daughter to be born 22 years ago I found myself in the local church. We had gone over her due date…gordiejackson.medium.com6. Who are you? I am………….Wednesday 13th April 2022gordiejackson.medium.com7. It’s time to contemplate our livesWe processed through the High Altar, past the shrine to St Alban into the Lady Chapel.gordiejackson.medium.com8. Good Friday pilgrimageFriday 15th April 2022gordiejackson.medium.com9. Listening to the birds, the air, the silenceI left the microphone on as I wanted those on Zoom to hear the birds that we could hear as we sat in the Meetinghouse.gordiejackson.medium.com10. “Thought did not create the mountains”J Krishnamurtigordiejackson.medium.com11. The Guinness was good but the healing was even betterOriginally posted on Blogger 19th March 2016medium.com12. A chance meeting leads to friendshipOriginally posted on Blogger 8th June 2013medium.comMay1. “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realise they were the big…Originally posted on blogger on 4th April 2015medium.com2. Letting life live in and through meI like to get up at 6 am. I did this morning but after making my coffee my body decided it wanted more sleep. I woke…gordiejackson.medium.com3. To my surprise, a Northern Irish Unionist Protestant still lives in me!Sinn Fein likely to make history today in Irelandgordiejackson.medium.com4. What did you give up to experience life more fully?Reflection from ‘The Road Less Travelled’gordiejackson.medium.com5. And then something says, “Face life!”I caught myself, do I fear life like some fear God? Why do I find my thoughts travelling over mountains I have not yet…gordiejackson.medium.com6. ResonatingThe other Sunday our Elijah Interfaith class of 2020 met on Zoom. We were looking at the word ‘Resonance’.gordiejackson.medium.com7. Those voicesMy goodness, what got into me for those voices to still be around after more than a half a century of life?gordiejackson.medium.com8. Anticipating Britain's Quakers Yearly MeetingFriends’ House, London Friday 27th to Monday 30th May 2022gordiejackson.medium.com9. Faith: Learning, waiting, changingBritain Yearly Meeting, Saturday 28th May 2022gordiejackson.medium.com10. What does a Quaker community need from each other?Britain Yearly Meeting, Saturday 28th May 2022gordiejackson.medium.com11. Continuing the conversation about how British Quakers can become anti-racistThe Swarthmore lecture — Perceiving the temperature of the water by Helen Minnisgordiejackson.medium.com12. What happens when the light shines on Quaker darkness?White British Quakers considering their part in racismgordiejackson.medium.com13. Reflections on Saturday and Sunday at British Quakers' annual MeetingBritain Yearly Meeting met from Friday 27th to Mon 30th May 2022gordiejackson.medium.comJune1. The Art of PrayerPraying together in Jerusalemgordiejackson.medium.com2. Religious texts give us a vocabulary; our relationship with the Spirit gives us possible answersThe other week, we were contemplating Matthew chapter 5 verses 21 to 32. We stay with the same passage for two weeks…gordiejackson.medium.com3. Have you experienced God?I was just sitting when I was reminded there were some books in a cupboard by the Quaker Thomas Kelly. I pulled them…gordiejackson.medium.com4. A shadow of myselfI went to Conscious Cafe on Monday night. The theme was ‘Our Shadow’. I almost always saw the shadow as our darker side…gordiejackson.medium.com5. Get drunk on a filmBenediction, Goodfellas and Nicolas Cagegordiejackson.medium.com6. Using Haikus to resonateLast month as an Interfaith group born from the Elijah Institute Summer School 2020 we looked at Resonance (thoughts…gordiejackson.medium.com7. St Albans PilgrimageHertfordshire city remembers its Saintgordiejackson.medium.com
