We are angels to each other My needs met in you and yours in me. At the very least we keep each other afloat At peace and on an even keel Company in other’s solitude Fellow travellers of this pilgrim’s road. At best, though I suspect God might mean us to reflect each other’s light … More A Poem: Angels
I fall asleep to my petitions, and wake with praise on my lips and the sense of something turned around, as I slept. “I make all things new”, He says. Just like the sun, on a new day is the same but rises clothed afresh in a thousand different shades. Just as the sun makes … More A Poem: Pray without Ceasing
What do you want me to do with this morning God? That shines through the blinds that shines through my shuttered heart What do I do with a sun that still rises? On us, whose joy wavers as a candle in the wind, on those, whose joy has for a moment, been snuffed out. What … More A Poem: Dark
Don’t wait for the perfect. Life is here right now. Shadows and light, the losses and the gains make a rich fabric of our days. Depth discerned by a light in the dark, that we hold like a lantern and pick our way. The shadows across the river’s face give a hue I would never … More A Poem: Perfect
Except a grain of wheat fall, catch the current of the wind, and lose all sense of direction, to rest in a place unbidden and foreign, it remains a single grain. Yet, unbridled or contained, and at the mercy of God’s faithfulness, it bears the seed for the new season’s harvest. It becomes new bread. … More A Poem: Except a Grain of Wheat
“For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.” Thomas Merton Each moment contains a hundred messages from God. For every cry of “Oh God!” He answers a hundred times “I am Here!” Rumi Don’t expect to arrive … More Daily Inspiration 27 Apr 17
I am the light in the darkness. The candle in your heart, that will not dim. Though the light in your life might depart, my flame within keeps burning. I am the length of the cross, and also its full width. My reach is in every direction, and it encompasses all of the earth. I … More A Poem: In my Heart
“Our hearts and minds desire clarity. We like to have a clear picture of a situation, a clear view of how things fit together, and clear insight into our own and the world’s problems. But just as in nature colours and shapes mingle without clear-cut distinctions, human life doesn’t offer the clarity we are looking … More Daily Inspiration, 30 Mar 17
“Keep your head high, your heart light, and set down what is not yours to carry.” JM Storm “Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength” Athena Singh “So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbour of your longing. And put your lip to the world, and live … More Daily Inspiration, 24 Jan 17
Living Tree Poetry 