A Tender New Year
As we pass over the threshold between yearsI hope for you, tenderness;that you become tenderness. Tender with your longings,tender with the things that are still impossible.Tender. [...]
A Carol for the Longest Night
Silent Night, Holy NightHere we long for your LightHere your Presence is achingly nearHere your Love gently touches our fear Hold our tears in your [...]
A Hymn for Palm Sunday
"and when the silence rises new / draw us more deeply into You."
The Eyes of the Heart
Last week we practiced Visio Divina, Sacred Seeing, allowing ourselves to be called through a curve or a cloud or a colour deep into [...]
Longest Night ~ Tears and Blessing
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Psalm 56 Sometimes we are gathering words for a [...]
The Heart in it
Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. (Photo: Thibault Camus/AP) No shape of wood or even [...]
Hanging by a thread
Thinking about church and the transfiguration I found a piece of conversation jangling around in my mind like loose change in a pocket. It was [...]
A Thousand Hosts
Today steadfastly we tie bright ribbons to our hearts so hope can find a way. We scatter folded cranes of peace each crease hard won. We [...]
In the deepening darkness
This morning we got up went about our morning routines came out into the drizzle and sat in a gentle, ordinary space ~ We bear witness [...]
Hearts Like Cups
Arise, lift up your hearts and shine, For God's brightness is covering us. God, holding out to us gifts, gifts of the star-child: courage for love [...]