by Anne Hamilton | May 19, 2023 | Thresholds, wasting
Back last century when, all unknowing, I was learning to research names, I spent some years laboriously piecing together a whole series of clues trying to connect two obscure but significant characters in Celtic folklore and Arthurian legend. Not long after I finally...
by Anne Hamilton | Jun 4, 2021 | Testing, Thresholds
Although the spirit of Python isn’t the only sentinel stationed on a threshold, it’s the one we usually recognise first. It’s a constrictor: it tries to squeeze us so tightly we feel forced to surrender to its agenda. Its goal is to block us so we’re never able to...
by Anne Hamilton | May 28, 2021 | Testing, Thresholds
In session 13, I spoke about divine testing. Perhaps the most memorable test in all Scripture is God’s request of Abraham. After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ He said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom...
