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

As I recall my own life of prayer, prayers I have heard, and conversations I have had about prayer I can’t help but wonder if the coke...

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to...

Ruth looked at the envelope again. There was no stamp, no postmark, only her name and address. She read the letter one more time... Dear...

"Why was my burden so heavy?" I slammed the bedroom door and leaned against it. Is there no rest from this life? I wondered. I stumbled...

Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took the small boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were seated,...

Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store. She approached the owner of the...

Marcel Sternberger was a methodical man of nearly 50, with bushy white hair, guileless brown eyes, and the bouncing enthusiasm of a...

Some days ago my aunt sent me this list of spiritual one-liners. I want to share that list with you. I have no idea where my aunt got...

It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant orange and was starting to dip into the blue ocean....

A man's daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed...

In the early 16th century, Albrecht Dürer created the pen and ink drawing we know of as Praying Hands, or Betende Hände in German. The...

I'm not perfect. I have all kinds of problems. I have no ability. I have no gifts. I'm just not worthy. Why would God want me? Well, did...

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year olds, “What does love mean?” The answers they got were...

Nothing is ever truly broken - that's the philosophy behind the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, which repairs smashed pottery by using...

Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered...

I just saw this poster titled “Everything I need to know in Life, I Learned from Noah’s Ark” circulating on Facebook. It’s probably on...

Once upon a mountain top, three little trees stood and dreamed of what they wanted to become when they grew up. The first little tree...

This was a story which I came across sometime ago which was very inspirational and so I thought I should share it.. A wealthy man and his...

Being an English graduate I have always loved Shakespeare. So today I thought why not talk about some of the words and phrases which we...