Spirituality - Blogs & Blog Posts

Happy Endings by TheSwarmiteREHAB on Nov 6, 2009  Who knows what people will turn into once settled into marriage or civil union – will he wander, will she go off sex? These fears are small beer indeed compared to the fear of finding another drunk, addict or gambler for someone who has...

Sin and Misery by St. Aidan to Abbey Manor on Oct 31, 2009"Failure to attain a deeply satisfying life always has the effect of making sinful actions seem attractive. Here lies the strength of temptation. this is no less true if the failure is caused by our efforts to be what we regard as 'spiritual'. Normal...

A place of beauty by St. Aidan to Abbey Manor on Oct 29, 2009For some reason I never linked it at the time, but around this time last year, some folks set up a prayer room in a secondary school, for students to use as they wanted. Accounts of the room are here and here. I even got a sense of peace and stillne...

The Lost Weekend by TheSwarmiteREHAB on Oct 25, 2009  Success – like poverty – is relative.   In 1994 after living in Spain I returned to the UK, ill once again and found myself in a homeless hostel. Someone sent me a postcard that said POVERTY IS RELATIVE with a cartoon sketch...

I vont to be alone by TheSwarmiteREHAB on Oct 19, 2009There is some debate as to whether Greta Garbo actually said ‘I want to be alone’ in the MGM film GRAND HOTEL. She is famously quoted as saying : I never said, " I want to be alone". I only said " I want to be left alone . The...

Love ‘n’ Pain and the whole damn thing. by TheSwarmiteREHAB on Oct 6, 2009  " In the quest for wholeness, paradox is at every turn. It is true that we cannot realise our wholeness as long as we deny any fragment of ourselves. If we seek to avoid fear or pain or sadness, we will simultaneously block the love and jo...

After Sunday: what connection between church and work? by St. Aidan to Abbey Manor on Sep 23, 2009The very excellent After Sunday project has published the results of a survey they did at Greenbelt last month on how well churches equip their members for the world of work. Here's a couple of the charts3. 'The church values me more for the work I d...