Rev Shirley Murphy
The thoughts, reflections, faith stories and meanderings of an 
Anglican Priest

These are the words Dr. Ida Scudder, spoke to her first batch of graduating doctors in 1922, “You will not only be curing diseases, but...

Please watch this video from Julian's YOU TUBE CHANNEL called THE AWAKENING. A video of a friend who has changed her way of life. Please...

Numbers 6:24-26 says, “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up...

An honest man was being tailgated by a stressed-out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow just in front of him. He...

Me: Hello God. God: Hello... Me: I’m falling apart. Can you put me back together? God: I'd rather not. Me: Why? God: Because you're not a...

A Baptist preacher went to see a member of the community and invited him to come to Church on Sunday morning. The man was a producer of...

I like many others had not heard much about these American missionaries who spent most of their life doing missionary work in Burma (now...

And we thought we had problems! If Noah had lived in the United States in the last ten years, the story may have gone something like...

A man walking along a California beach was deep in prayer. All of a sudden, he said out loud, "Lord, grant me one wish." Suddenly the sky...

This morning when I was reading the Bible, this verse stood out for me and this is why I decided I needed to write this post. "Watch out!...

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama XIV The meaning of...

In the movie The Notebook Noah Calhoun must introduce himself to his wife, Allie, every day. After more than 50 years together, Allie has...

There is a hymn called “Through all the changing scenes of life” which most of us would have heard many times in your life. The first...

In the movie “Rumor Has It”, the main character Sarah Huttinger has unsettling questions and doubts about who she is. She's searching...

One of my all time favourite hymns is “Count your Blessings.” The refrain in that hymns goes like this. Count your blessings, name them...

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. I love this quote as it tells us that...

You must have heard of people saying that the sky is the limit, and the world is the oyster. When we are going through a tough time and...

One of my favourite movies is Forrest Gump. In this movie there is a very well known phrase which many of us would have heard from many...

According to the Cambridge Dictionary the meaning of waiting is described as “to allow time to go by, especially while staying in one...

Our brain is a very strange thing. Ambiguity and uncertainty play a big role in this important organ, and it is this organ which gives us...