I laid down today and you laid with me. My eyes closed inside, although I was resting upright. My grasp loosened, my hold let go. If this is what its like to die or be at peace with not knowing, then good. I trust. All is well. All manner of things I count to … More A Poem: Trust
I am falling like the rain like the light through the broken clouds I am falling like a leaf whose time it is to drop like a musical note carried aloft to your ear and mine. I am falling like the sun like someone who realises there are no more supports for the weight we … More A Poem: Falling
Everything is incomplete Lord. We live with things in perpetual suspense. Like curtains open a chink to let in the light, so we see yet just a partial glimpse. We live with things unresolved, each moment a different state of growth or decay, increase or decline. We have a hand in creating things that will … More A Poem: Incomplete
“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
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” Dr Suess “It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.” Henry David Thoreau “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things … More Daily Inspiration, 27 Mar 17
God taught me of love. How it was a like a kite, that you lengthen and let loose. Or the string of a bow that sets an arrow on its path. I guess, nothing he taught me was that it was something you kept. Rather it was something that you kept on giving out; like … More A Poem: Flight
Breathe on me Breath of God Until my heart is pure, until with thee I will one will, to do and to endure. Edwin Hatch “The contemplative path is about learning to live out of our spirit, a full and whole-hearted life. Contemplation is more than our revival, or our renewal in God. It is … More Daily Inspiration: 24 Feb 17
“Love can take broken things and make them beautiful” Ellie Holcomb “Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “That is my prayer to God every day: ‘Remove the veils so I might see what is really happening here, and not be intoxicated by my stories and my fears.” Elizabeth Lesser … More Daily Inspiration, 16 Feb 17
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language.” Rainer Maria Rilke God, give me the courage of another road. Give me the peace to accept new things, to go new ways, to embrace the unfamiliar. … More Daily Inspiration, 9 Feb 17
Living Tree Poetry 