Month: July 2020
Updated on April 22, 2024
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 …
Posted on July 27, 2020
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 …
Updated on April 22, 2024
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 …
Updated on July 17, 2020
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 …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Meditation with Psalm 103
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Posted on July 12, 2020
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 …
Updated on April 22, 2024
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 …
Updated on July 5, 2020
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, …
Updated on April 22, 2024
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 …