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The Comfortable Words

The Comfortable Words

著者： Eric and Julia Pickerill
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The Comfortable Words is a space to slow down and allow the words and way of Jesus to comfort us, strengthen us, and reorient us to the care and keeping of Christ. The phrase comes from Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer. Cranmer's "comfortable" didn't mean cozy or comfy — it comes from the Latin confortare, meaning "with strength." These are words meant to give fortitude in uncomfortable times. Each episode offers a reflection on words spoken by Christ or about him, with room to be still. More at pickerill.casa© 2026 Eric and Julia Pickerill キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 聖職・福音主義
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  • Singing Without Words

    Singing Without Words
    2026/08/30
    Eric reflects on Jesus' cry from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46), and discovers it isn't a line Jesus composed himself, but the opening words of Psalm 22. Drawing on a UK pastor who leads prisoners in writing their own psalms, the viral footage of a dementia patient roused to song by music from his youth, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reflection that the Psalms are the words God gives us when we have none of our own, he asks why song reaches us in a way doctrine and story can't. He closes with an invitation: pray a psalm, or sing a song, right where you actually are, even in the mess, the anger, or the dark.

    The Comfortable Words is written and recorded by Eric and Julia Pickerill.
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    © 2026 Eric and Julia Pickerill
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    16 分
  • Not My Will, But Yours

    Not My Will, But Yours
    2026/08/23
    Julia turns to the Garden of Gethsemane and the most uncomfortable hours of Jesus' life, where comfort shows up in an entirely upside-down way. Drawing on Mark's Gospel and W. H. Vanstone's The Stature of Waiting, she traces how Jesus moves from actor to the one "handed over" — the God who need not suffer choosing to become "object," by his own initiative. The reflection sits with a hard question: what does it mean to lay down our right to ourselves, to pray "not my will, but yours," and to trust God's goodness from a place of weakness rather than strength? It closes with Julian of Norwich's words that Jesus could not yet say in the Garden — that all shall be well.

    The Comfortable Words is written and recorded by Eric and Julia Pickerill.
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    © 2026 Eric and Julia Pickerill
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    18 分
  • Consider the Birds

    Consider the Birds
    2026/08/16
    Julia explores a phrase tucked into the Sermon on the Mount: "The eye is the lamp of the body... if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light" (Matthew 6:22). She traces the Greek word emblepō — to gaze, to look intently — through Jesus' invitation to "consider the birds of the air" and into the courtyard where "the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter" after his denial. Anxiety, she suggests, is a disease of vision: what we fix our attention on shapes what fills us. She invites listeners to consider what has held their attention this week. Closing prayer: "In the busyness of this day, grant me a stillness of seeing, O God..." — a prayer by J. Philip Newell, from Celtic Benediction: Morning and Night Prayer.

    The Comfortable Words is written and recorded by Eric and Julia Pickerill.
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    © 2026 Eric and Julia Pickerill
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    14 分
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