One of my favourite passages in the Bible is found in Isaiah 43: ‘Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.’ (Is...

I spend a lot of time pondering grace and particularly love the verse “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Cor 12:9) At least (if I'm honest), I love the first part of the verse. I'm not quite so keen on the second part... In...

Kathleen O'Meara wrote this poem during the Irish famine in the 19th century. It's very apt today (another example of the lasting value of the arts!) 'And people stayed home and read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played and learned new...