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

Effective immediately, please be aware that there are changes YOU need to make in YOUR life. These changes need to be completed in order...

The older I get and the more of life I experience, the more tentative life becomes. There are no guarantees. The certainty of naiveté and...

Each year on the fourth Sunday of Lent, countries around the world celebrate Mothering Sunday. This typically involves lavishing Mums...

If not for God's Word, the human race may have been forced to learn their virtues from God's other creations. For instance, we may have...

John Harper was born to a pair of solid Christian parents on May 29th, 1872. It was on the last Sunday of March 1886 when he was thirteen...

We don’t know the exact time and date of when ladders were invented, but it is believed the first ones date back several thousand years....

In the Bible, rain is a symbol of God’s blessing or His displeasure. Rain can bring refreshment, enable crop growth, and help produce a...

Sherlock Holmes, the great detective who had solved many mysteries, and Dr. Watson, his companion, went on a camping trip. After a good...

Music has a way of dividing us. Turn on music in a car full of people and you will get a car full of mixed reactions. But there are...

You know what it’s like when you are walking along and you miss a step, right? You stumble and twist. You can’t get your balance back....

Encourage one another. (1 Thessalonians 5:11) Does encouragement seem to you a good, but small, thing? To me, it is huge. I want to...

Please watch this video from Julian's new YOU TUBE CHANNEL called THE AWAKENING. Take a few moments to relax with some beautiful...

He’s dead. She has died. Those are the words we dread to hear. They are especially painful when someone close to us, someone who has...

It was a gift from my parents back in 1994. For weeks I had waited, and there it was a brand-new Bible, from Mum and Dad: A New Kings...

For a moment, imagine you have been invited to a wedding and you need to buy some new clothes for this special occasion. The best that...

Please watch this video from Julian's new YOU TUBE CHANNEL called THE AWAKENING. This video talks about, "Are you living the life that...

I would say that that the topic most often talked about in conversation is what’s wrong with our world. We talk about the death of...

“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” – Mark 10:17-31. I wonder what drove the man to Jesus. I wonder what was going on...

A newspaper ran a little item entitled: "In Times of Stress, Just Call on Rover". It goes like this: "When it comes to times of stress,...

Can you imagine the joy and excitement of Mary and Martha and all their friends? Lazarus had been dead but now here he is walking,...