Month: November 2020

Poem for the First Sunday of Advent

Wachet Auf   (Wake up!) Advent. Season when Dual citizenship Holds us in Awkward tension. The world, intent on Spending Christmas, Eats and drinks its way to Oblivion after dinner. The Kingdom sounds Insistent warnings: Repent, be ready, Keep awake, …

Gratitude Meditation

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Poem for Christ the King Sunday

The Kingdom    It’s a long way off but inside it there are quite different things going on; festivals at which the poor man is king and the consumptive is healed; mirrors in which the blind look at themselves …

Ephesians 1 Christ the King

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Poem for the Second Sunday before Advent

Sacred Messenger Out in the bay, unsettling asone gleaming fin breaks the surface,then the curved black back. Close now the great animal’s eye holds minewith acceptance and questioning;could I even say love? Perhaps the bearer of a gift, …

Galatians 5 FRUIT

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Gal_5_Spiritual_Fruit.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedADVENT and CHRISTMAS RETREAT with Lissy on Zoom begins December 1st 2020. More information here. You are warmly welcome. In Galatians 5 Paul contrasts the instincts of the flesh/ego with …

Advent Retreat

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Poem For Remembrance Sunday

By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,and confidently waiting come what may,we know that God is with us night and morningand never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented,still evil …

Meditation with John 20 PEACE

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Imaginative_Meditation_with_John_20_PEACE.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn this episode I invite you to enter one of my favourite gospel stories in your imagination. John 20:19-23 finds the disciples locked in fear in the upper room, unsure …

Poem for All Saints and All Souls Day

There is a placeThere is a place prepared for little children,those we once lived for, those we deeply mourn,those who from play, from learning and from laughtertoo soon were torn. There is a place where hands which held …