Marion Stones

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

@mrdanwalker Just brilliant!

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

@brandrewthomas Thank you.

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

@Phill_John3_16 @jackiesearle09 @CofEDevon @GlosDioc Thank you both for your kind words & remembrance of Graham. Still bereft without him. 😌🙏

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

@TraceyVoysey @agricontract Go Tracey & Co!! With you & all there in prayer! 🙏

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#clectio #wordsofcomfort Matthew 9.18-34 This passage is packed with healing, but also doubt, scorn, disbelief. Is this how we imagine God’s healing in our context? #growininprayer @CofEDevon

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#wordsofcomfort #clectio #Psalm91 in #CommonWorship
Because they have set their love upon me,
therefore will I deliver them;
I will lift them up, because they know my name. (v14)
Love as the key to relationship with God. @CofEDevon #growinginprayer

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#clectio #Isaiah 13:11
I will punish the world for its evil,
   and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant,
   and lay low the insolence of tyrants.

Judgement belongs to God. Do we make it our responsibility? Matt 7:1 Do not judge lest...

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#clectio #Matthew8 v34: “Then the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighbourhood.“ What could they not cope with? Healing? Change? Disturbance? @CofEDevon #growinginprayer #wordsofcomfort here?

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#clectio #wordsofcomfort In #Matthew8 vv2,3:
‘Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.’ He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ #Godspromises find their yes in Jesus! @CofEDevon #praygrowserve

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

Congratulations @joncurtis82 looks very good indeed! @CofEDevon #praygrowserve

[Jon Curtis @joncurtis82]

at least the magazine looks good...!

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

I agree @revddal It’s a bleak passage. #clectio #praygrowserve @CofEDevon

[dallasayling @revddal]

#Isaiah9 #cLectio Is it "stretching" it too far to read it as a judgement against a nation and politicians who see food banks a good thing, have stolen pensions from women and think people can live on nothing for 5 weeks and the gifts of God become self serving.

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

Looking for #wordsofcomfort but finding #Isaiah 9:8 - 10:4 repeated refrain:
For all this, his anger has not turned away;
   his hand is stretched out still.
Jesus’ hands outstretched in compassion on the cross; and ours? @CofEDevon #clectio #CommonWorship

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

@BenPBradshaw My wife suggests American Beauty Berry. (callicarpa Americana) though that might put a political slant on it?

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

It will be a great day! @CofEDevon #praygrowserve

[Archdeacon of Exeter @andrewbeane]

Looking forward to the @CofEDevon #Reader & #Clergy Conference today at @BelmontChapel. #Refreshed, #Renewed, #Resourced
#praygrowserve
#growingtogether
@GtRCDevon

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#wordsofcomfort #clectio Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness—on them light has shined.
Nothing superficial here. The deeper the darkness the brighter the light? God’ people enduring in faithfulness?

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

And if he’s wearing his Christmas jumper you’ll know you’ve struck lucky @revhannaha !!!

[Hannah Alderson @revhannaha]

Full disclosure - I am wearing a Christmas jumper right now and need to drop something into the Bishop’s office in a minute. If he’s in, I will ask him.

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#clectio In his counsel of perfection #Matthew5 Jesus urges: Give to everyone who begs from you... I find this impossible even over the length of the High St. Am I so far from perfection? #praygrowserve @CofEDevon

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#wordsofcomfort #Isaiah6 provided first encounter many years ago with a verse to move my heart: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’ v8. #praygrowserve #growinginprayer @CofEDevon #clectio

[Marion Stones @GrahamStones2]

#clectio Grim consequences as God whistles up the invader in #Isaiah5_30
They will roar over it on that day,
like the roaring of the sea.
And if one looks to the land—
only darkness and distress;
and the light grows dark with clouds. @CofEDevon