Author Archives: Laura Dobson

Words for week beginning Monday 2nd February

Feast of Candlemas “God of life,there are days when the burdens we carrychafe our shoulders and wear us down;when the road seems dreary and endless,the skies gray and threatening;when our lives have no music in themand our hearts are lonely,and our souls have lost their courage.Flood the path with light, we beseech you;turn our eyesContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 2nd February”

Words for week beginning Monday 26th January

“Under pine trees in the snow,the chickadees around my head,I wept for the will of God,this hungry woman fed.All the shadows shiftedwhile my back was turned.Once and always on my fingerone soft and small gray bird.Not a twistingdue to prayer,but all its own,and mine together.And so I bear the gift,carry it through time—this deepest darkness,astonishingContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 26th January”

Words for week beginning Monday 19th January

“Summoned from sleepin the heart of nightmy name is calledand, like Samuel,I rise from my bedseeking the caller.Summoned from sleepI am drawn intothe beating heartof the Onewho called me.The angel of nightlights a candle in my soulinviting me to listento the wordless songof Divine Union.Deep healing.Deep listening.Deep waiting.Deep watching.All of these becomea part of myContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 19th January”

Words for week beginning Monday 12th January

“I know this happinessis provisional: the looming presences —great suffering, great fear — withdraw onlyinto peripheral vision: but ineluctable this shimmeringof wind in the blue leaves: this flood of stillnesswidening the lake of sky: this need to dance,this need to kneel:this mystery.” Of Being by Denise Levertov (1923 – 1997)

Words for week beginning Monday 5th January

“You have looked at so many doors with longing,wondering if your life lay on the other side.For today, choose the door that opens to the inside.Travel the most ancient way of all:the path that leads you to the center of your life.No map but the one you make yourself.No provision but what you already carryandContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 5th January”

Thought for the day, Wednesday 31st December

“Lost in awe at the beauty around me, I must have slipped into a state of heightened awareness. It is hard – impossible really – to put into words the moment of truth that suddenly came upon me then. Even the mystics are unable to describe their brief flashes of spiritual ecstasy. It seemed toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 31st December”

Thought for the day, Tuesday 30th December

“Where are you now, my good friend? Are you out in the field, in the forest, on the mountain, in a military camp, in a factory, at your desk, in a hospital, in prison? Regardless of where you are, let us breathe in and out together and allow the sun of awareness to enter. LetContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 30th December”

Thought for the day, Monday 29th December

“”In all things we should try to make ourselves be as grateful as possible. For gratitude is a good thing for ourselves, in a manner in which justice, commonly held to belong to others, is not. Gratitude pays itself back in large measure.” Seneca, Moral Letters, 81.19 Think of all the things you can beContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 29th December”