About Author: Nancy Wallace

Website: http://nancysblog-seeker.blogspot.com/
Description: Blogs as Seeker on Blogger at this URL: http://nancysblog-seeker.blogspot.com/. Tweets @Seeking1st. Church of England priest and Vocations Adviser, learning to pray, paint and play.

Posts by Nancy Wallace

Grief and Compassion – Women of the Gospels series from @seeking1st – the Widow of Nain

Posted on June 14, 2013 | No Comments
Do you know that feeling of hitting rock bottom? In this post by Ernie Feasey he describes how, at a time of grief, when he was at a very low ebb,...
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God as a woman? by @seeking1st – from our Women of the Gospels series

Posted on May 14, 2013 | No Comments
WHAT IS YOUR PICTURE OF GOD? A peasant woman, with a home-made brush, down in the dust on the floor of a dark room, scouring every nook and cranny for...
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Companion on the Way (@Seeking1st)

Posted on April 14, 2013 | No Comments
I’m taking a bit of a liberty in this post. Some of you will think I’ve got this wrong. That’s OK. I may be wrong, but I like to think...
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Widow’s Mite (@Seeking1st)

Posted on February 14, 2013 | 3 Comments
‘Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold”. So wrote Frances Ridley Havergal in her hymn ‘Take my life…” ’Mite’ is a reference to the King...
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What do you want? – Women of the Gospels – Mother of James and John by @seeking1st

Posted on January 14, 2013 | No Comments
What do you want? A simple question, but when Jesus asks, it touches depths. It is not a question like, ‘do you want a cappuccino or a skinny latte?’ It...
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Waiting without hope (@Seeking1st)

Posted on December 14, 2012 | 3 Comments
She always looked at the ground. If your back was as bent as hers, you would have done the same. It was painful to look up and she didn’t want...
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Who do you think you are? (@seeking1st) #BigBible

Posted on November 14, 2012 | No Comments
The BBC program ‘Who do you think you are?’ taps into the growing interest in genealogy, due partly to so much material accessible online. I am researching my family tree. This...
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Mary of Bethany’s Story (@Seeking1st) #BigBible

Posted on October 14, 2012 | No Comments
Mary of Bethany was a woman who didn’t conform to acceptable behaviour for women in 1st century Jewish society. Had she always been like that? Or was it because of Jesus?...
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Test Case Trap (@Seeking1st) #BigBible

Posted on September 14, 2012 | 1 Comment
A man and a woman in Mali were stoned to death for adultery a few weeks ago. I don’t know their names, only their ‘crime’ and the hideous manner of...
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Women Behaving Badly @Seeking1st #BigBible

Posted on August 14, 2012 | 5 Comments
Will the inspiration of strong young women who achieve their goals be an enduring Olympic legacy? I hope so, but sadly, women who achieve what they want aren’t always positive...
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