Seeker

Humility is today's focus for prayer for the General Synod of the Church of England which begins its November session tomorrow. It's the 8th day of the  NovemberNovena  days of prayer for the Church of England General Synod whose meting starts in London tomorrow. For an introduction to this prayer cycle see  Prayer for General Synod: love and joy . I have posted the prayers plus some Bible verses every day of this so far. Scroll down the blog archive for November in the right hand side bar to see the posts from previous days. Today let us pray for humility, that we may truly seek and accept the will of God, in God's time. Now you are the body of Christ,  and each one of you is a part of it. 1 Corinthians 12:27 NRSV And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for 'God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.' 1 Peter 5:5 NRSV Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard ...

More than 3 weeks after returning from the Holy Land, this is my 3rd post-pilgrimage reflection. I said it would take months to unpack!  Here's a door, unpacked from my camera. I'm now trying to paint it in watercolour. I want to include some children, but finding this hard. Doors are powerful symbols. They've always fascinated me, as I've mentioned in  a previous post here and also here . This door, the 'Door of Humility' is the entrance to the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem. I took this photo while listening to our guide Ghassan (a Palestinian Christian) explaining why the current entrance is so small, though the former were huge. His gentle words still ring in my mind, "now only a young child may enter freely - like the baby of Bethlehem". Then we entered stooping, as most adults have to if you want to avoid a painful encounter with the stone lintel. I thought later about Jesus' words before he took children in his arms and blesse...