Month: January 2021
Updated on January 28, 2021
Poem for the 4th Sunday of Epiphany
Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labour in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Meditation with Psalm 69
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Meditaiton_with_Psalm_69.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedPsalm 69 “Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold” Psalm 69:1 I’m not sure …
Updated on January 21, 2021
Poem for the 3rd Sunday of Epiphany
The Call of the Disciples He calls us all to step aboard his ship, Take the adventure on this morning’s wing, Raise sail with him, launch out into the deep, Whatever storms or floods are threatening. If faith …
Posted on January 22, 2021
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Dear Ones, Hello, and I hope you are taking good care of yourself. Thank you so much for your faithful presence here at Contemplative At Home. It is such an honour to be allowed to lead you as …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Meditation with Psalm 62
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Meditation_Psalm_62.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedThird in a series of “Psalms in times of uncertainty” Inhale. Exhale. Lots of love to you all. Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and …
Updated on January 7, 2021
Poem for the 2nd Sunday of Epiphany
Love (III) Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Meditation with Psalm 60
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Meditation_with_Psalm_60.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedPsalms in times of Uncertainty Psalm 60:1-5 “You have rejected us, broken our defenses… You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger” …
Updated on January 7, 2021
Poem for the First Sunday of Epiphany
Royal PresentsThe off’rings of the Eastern kings of oldUnto our lord were incense, myrrh and gold;Incense because a God; gold as a king;And myrrh as to a dying man they bring.Instead of incense, Blessed Lord, if weCan send …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Meditation with Psalm 57
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/contemplativeathome/Psalm_57.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIts been a week, loves, and we turn our meditation to Psalm 57 “I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings” We aren’t called to hide from the …
Updated on December 23, 2020
Poem for the Second Sunday of Christmas
RING OUT WILD BELLS! Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring …