Month: October 2020
Updated on April 22, 2024
1 John 4 LOVE
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/1_john_4_LOVE.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedGood morning friends, Concluding our series of meditations on love, we pray today with 1 John 4. “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who …
Updated on October 22, 2020
Poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity
Today’s poem is Love after Love by Derek Walcott (1930-2017). I am grateful to Richard Rohr (in his book The Universal Christ SPCK 2019) for drawing attention to this poem by the St Lucian poet Derek Walcott. “ All of us …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Romans 12 Love
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Romans_12_LOVE.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedWe continue our meditation on love, this week looking at Paul’s words about what love looks like in action. Notably, many of these ‘actions’ are interior (be hopeful, patient, perservere …
Updated on October 15, 2020
Poem for the 19th Sunday after Trinity
Today’s poem is Turning Fifty by Judith Wright, 1915-2000. The Australian poet Judith Wright was also an uncompromising environmentalist and social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. I include this poem for all hard working, socially aware young …
Updated on April 22, 2024
1 Cor 13 LOVE
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/1_Cor_13_Love.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedA passage so familiar that it has nearly become a bit twee: Love is patient, love is kind. So I invite you to look again, to look wholeheartedly on the …
Updated on October 9, 2020
Poem for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Earth’s crammed with heaven,And every common bush afire with God;But only he who sees, takes off his shoes —The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,And daub their natural faces unaware……. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 extract from …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Romans 12 One Body
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Romans_12_One_Body.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI offer you here a meditation with Romans 12:3-9, as we continue looking at the apostle Paul through a contemplative lens. Paul opens Romans 12 with the invitation to offer …
Updated on October 1, 2020
Poem for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
My boat so small(from the Breton Fisherman’s Prayer) My boat so small,the sea so wide,be near me, Lord,through wind and tide. In sun and calm,in fruitful days,the work is yoursand yours the praise. But when the wavesare mountain-high,be …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Romans 8 The Power of Love
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Romans_8_The_Power_of_Love.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDear Friends, Today we meditate on Romans 8:31-32, 34-35, 37-38. “I am convinced that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” NOTHING!!!! You …