Month: July 2020

Meditation with Psalm 146

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Meditation_with_Psalm_146.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedA meditation with Psalm 146, a song of praise and affirmation of God’s character. Every blessing dear ones, and happy summer. I’ll be taking a break from new episodes for …

Poem for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity

Old AgeThe seas are quiet when the winds give o’er;So calm are we when passions are no more.For then we know how vain it was to boastof fleeting things, so certain to be lost.Clouds of affection from our …

Meditation with Psalm 121

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Meditation_with_Psalm_121.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI wonder what kind of work you are being called to this week? Is this week’s work your employment, or investing in the people around you, the fight for justice …

Poem for Sixth Sunday after Trinity

We Shall Meet When the Danger is Over If you can, listen and watch a video of this song by the Norwegian musician HildeSvela on YouTube. I heard a version of it on the 8.10am BBC Radio 4 …

Meditation with Psalm 103

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Poem for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity

Today’s poem is These are the Hands, by Michael Rosen. You can hear the author reading the poem here, or you can read the poem here. When Michael Rosen, a much loved children’s writer, wrote this poem to …

Meditation with Psalm 63

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Meditation_with_Psalm_63.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDavid wrote Psalm 63 as he hid from Saul, in fear of his life. Pursued, alone and in the wilderness, David turns his heart to the Lord, using language that …

Poem for Fourth Sunday After Trinity

The Cloths of HeavenHad I the heaven’s embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light;I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, …

Meditation with Psalm 62

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/meditation_with_psalm_62.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed“For God alone my soul waits in silence” says David as Psalm 62, “He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.” I was reminded recently that images, such …