In Search of the Mystery of God
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<p>A voice from beyond time yet within it. Explorations of the encounter of creation with its creator. Short sermons from the Bewcastle House of Prayer.</p>
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February 22, 2026
Who am I?
<p>It's a question we all ask ourselves at some point. Frightened of the answer, we often accept the glib response encouraged by advertising, or social media, or well-meaning friends, and move quickly on. But pause; stay with it for a while. Let it do its work. It becomes uncomfortable, difficult, unsettling. We're not sure how to answer. We're not even sure what those three words mean when put together like this. Who am I? A name? An occupation? A wife, husband, mother, father, son, daughter? Me?</p><p>It is THE existential question, and not a modern one. It is the question at the heart of Jesus' temptation in the wilderness; 'IF you are the Son of God...'. 'Am I? Doubt. Questioning. It arises out of the Fall in Genesis, when humanity first asserted its prerogative to rebel against God. Created as the 'image of God', as sons and daughters of the Creator turn their backs on the One that loved them, and became 'wise', suddenly knowing right from wrong (of course, they had no knowledge of 'wrong' beforehand), and, aware that they were 'naked', became 'ashamed' where there had been no shame, for shame is a consequence of the knowledge of guilt. So they hid from each other and from God. And the question arises 'Adam, where are you?'. Hiding among the trees of the garden (thank God for trees). The question has become, who am I?</p><p>Lent, then, is the time of the desert, when all is stripped away and the questions laid bare in the bright glare of sun on white, dessicated bone. Welcome to the question...</p><p>Poem: 'Instructions for the desert' by Cynthia Fuller</p><p>OT: Gen 2:15-17, 3:1-7</p><p>NT Rom 5:12-19</p><p>Gospel: Matt 4:1-11</p>
November 10, 2024
Remembrance
<p>Silence. Absence of speech. Heads bowed. Time transcended. Two minutes of eternity. Strangers' names sounded aloud. Anchor still holding. Lighthouse in the storm. Death faced. Or not.</p><p>Our acts of remembrance are presented in many different ways. But not all are helpful. This sermon explores the real point of remembrance.</p>
August 18, 2024
Alone-ness
<p>In the depths of our inner being exists, in each of us, a part that no one else ever sees. Its the place where sometimes even we are too afraid to go. Its where our deepest secrets lie, the things we are too terrified to let others know about us; where the disappointments that have crushed us are buried; where memories of being rejected, or humiliated, or bullied, when we have been so badly hurt it feels like a sword has run through us, are shut away in the dark because otherwise they would overwhelm and drown us. Where we know how we have sometimes treated others, said and done unthinkably unkind and cruel acts of which we are so ashamed we can't bear to admit them. And it leaves us with this deep sense of isolation and utter alone-ness.</p><p>Most of us bury this part of our soul, sensing that no-one would want anything to do with us if they really knew what we were like. So we try to compensate, perhaps by presenting an image of ourselves to the world by which we would like to be known. We choose our clothes, the way we look, our manner with others, to convey a particular impression, a mask behind which to hide, carefully cultivated in front of a mirror. Mirrors. Those silvered surfaces that reflect back the superficial us we want others to see. Where would we be without mirrors and photographs, and the rise of the ubiquitous 'selfie'?</p><p>But this hidden part is the 'real' us - the rest is all facade. And it is this hidden part that God calls to. In the story of the Fall in Genesis 3, after Adam and Eve have eaten the apple, they realise they are 'naked', exposed to each other. They both feel this incredible shame and guilt, and so they hide from each other and from God. Its exactly the same with each of us. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of Everyman - we hide ourselves, alone and out of sight, as George Herbert so precisely puts it, 'guilty of dust and sin'. But in the cool of the day, God walks in the garden and calls out to them 'where are you?'</p><p>'Where are you?'</p><p>That's the question God asks of each of us.</p><p>Its arguably the most profound question in the Bible. 'Where are you?'</p><p>Dare we answer?</p><p>'But what if...?'</p><p>The rub is, of course, that he already knows exactly where we are, why we are hiding, and, most frighteningly, what we are hiding. And yet his love for each of us remains infinitely deeper than our worst fear. This is the Mystery of God: how is it possible for God to know what we are really like and still love us?</p><p>The question, then, is whether we are willing to be found...</p><p>The Bewcastle Benefice sermon for the 12th Sunday after Trinity 2024</p><p>Poem: 'The Raven' by Norman Nicholson</p><p>OT: 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14</p><p>NT: Eph 5:15-20</p><p>Gospel: John 6:51-58</p>
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