He had the beauty of himself alive in the only moment of his life. Wendell Berry My mind becamebeautiful by the sight of him. He had the beautyof himself alive in the only moment of his life. Wendell Berry in a poem about a yellow-throated warbler Image: Makoto Fujimura, Golden Sea God’s first gift to […]
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. Nietzsche …behind and beneath the smooth wheels of the socially constructed world are two abiding facts: unreconciled pain and unexhausted compassion, the history of men and women and the history of God with us. Rowan Williams In the beginning when God created […]
Pray as you can: not as you can’t Dom John Chapman I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention….How to be idle and blessed…. Mary Oliver Stop searching, stop travelling, and you will arrive. There is nowhere to go! Be still and see what is before your eyes. The […]
Peace and love are always in us, living and working, but we are not always in peace and love. Julian of Norwich In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own sight we do not stand. And both of these are true, as I see it. But the way God sees is the higher […]
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labour pains until now…. Romans 8:22 God is to be experienced in art and culture, in everyday reality. But the natural world is a primal place where God is to be met – a ‘precinct of epiphany, the geography of grace’. Just how much a […]
and it is here and nowhere else we will find God. Paul Collins From earliest childhood, I was always conscious of a strong, sometimes frightening, sometime deeply necessary current of sheer meaning in things and people, a pressure of significance that only rarely carried over into what people commonly said. The world was resonant and […]
Everyone needs to feel at home, to feel earthed Esther de Waal Everyone needs to feel at home, to feel earthed, for it is impossible to say ‘Who am I?’ without first asking, ‘Where am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?’ Without roots we can never grow. Without stability we cannot […]
The place is never “chosen”…it is merely discovered… The place is never “chosen”…it is merely discovered….in other words, the sacred place in some way or another reveals itself. Mircea Eliade Can you name places in your life which have revealed something of life’s wonder and God’s mystery? “The place on which you are standing is […]
May the artesian water spring Silence is the rock where I shall stand O when I strike it with my hand May the artesian water spring From the Dark source I long to find. Judith Wright Photo credit: Cindy Cornett Dadirri recognises the deep spring that is inside us. We call on it and […]
Fr Philip Carter’s Lenten series this year is titled ‘Thin places’. The meditations lead us to reflect on spaces, internal and external, where we feel at home, able to give time to ourselves to look at Jesus as we accompany him on this journey, and allow him to look at us. The spirit of this […]