Month: December 2020
Updated on December 23, 2020
Poem for the First Sunday of Christmas
First Sunday of Christmas December 27th The Song of the Shepherds We were familiar with the night. We knew its favourite colours, its sullen silence and its small, disturbing sounds, its unprovoked rages, its savage dreams. We slept by …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Isaiah 11 Meditation
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Isaiah_11_meditation.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedChristmas Greetings, dear ones!! This meditation looks at the infant Jesus and considers Isaiah’s prophecy: “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse” { yes, for those of …
Updated on December 17, 2020
Poem for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
BC:AD This was the moment when BeforeTurned into After, and the future’sUninvented timekeepers presented arms. This was the moment when nothingHappened. Only dull peaceSprawled boringly over the earth. This was the moment when even energetic RomansCould find nothing …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Isaiah 9 Meditation
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Isaiah_9_meditation.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIsaiah 9:2-7 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.3 You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they …
Updated on December 10, 2020
Poem for the Third Sunday of Advent
Advent Calendar He will come like last leaf’s fall.One night when the November windhas flayed the trees to the bone, and earthwakes choking on the mould,the soft shroud’s folding. He will come like frost.One morning when the shrinking …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Isaiah 40 Meditation
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Isaiah_40_meditation.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedLet Every Heart Prepare Him Room In this week’s meditation we pick up the Advent theme of preparing the way of Lord. How might I prepare room for the dawning …
Updated on December 3, 2020
Poem for the Second Sunday of Advent
The ComingAnd God held in his handA small globe. Look he said.The son looked. Far off,As through water, he sawA scorched land of fierceColour. The light burnedThere; crusted buildingsCast their shadows: a brightSerpent, a riverUncoiled itself, radiantWith slime.On …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Isaiah 35
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Isaiah_35.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedAn Advent Meditation. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus. “The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly …