Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“The whole earth sings praise!Wild wind whips glory,babbling brook skipping sings,green field davening sway.The smallest ears pick up the tunethat pulses through all things. Oh God, Maker of all,let my life move withthe earth songs beneath my feetand the star songs above my head.Let my heart jig and caper like a young lamb.Let my soulContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 11th May”

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progressThat it is made by passing throughContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 4th May”

For Beltane “I am the one whose praise echoes on high.I adorn all the earth.I am the breeze that nurtures all things green.I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits.I am led by the spirit to feed the purest streams.I am the rain coming from the dewthat causes the grasses to laugh with the joyContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 27th April”

For Earth Day “The trees breathe for you, the bees buzz for you, the mycelium burrows deep into the soil for you. Our ancestors knew how to live in accordance with the truthof our interdependence and we must learn how to do the same. We must sink down into the structures of our cells toContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 20th April”

“Splendors of the spring world,uplift me.Peonies, you slow-motion fireworks,beguile me.Sunday sky, the color of a newborn’s eyes,regard me.Starry night, the color of opals strewn across rain-soaked earth,enchant me.Fields of spring, sweetening the air,calm me.Glory of iris, pulsing in my pupil like the warm blood in my wrist,astound me.All you realities of the spring world,call toContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 13th April”

For Easter “Easter. The grave clothes of winterare still here, but the sepulchreis empty. A messengerfrom the tomb tells ushow a stone has been rolledfrom the mind, and a tree lightensthe darkness with its blossom.There are travellers upon the roadwho have heard music blownfrom a bare bough, and a childtells us how the accidentof lastContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 6th April”

For Holy Week “The standard of Love is a high one.We all rebel, and some are clueless.They are not just or generous or truthfulThey spend their time plotting to get ahead;they plunder the world and do not share.I hate this—but I am not innocent. Though I try to share,to be just and frugal,most of theContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 30th March”

For Lady Day, 25 March “Even if I don’t see it again—nor ever feel itI know it is—and that if once it hailed meit ever does—And so it is myself I want to turn in that directionnot as towards a place, but it was a tiltingwithin myself,as one turns a mirror to flash the lightContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 23rd March”

For the Vernal Equinox “O Sacred Balance, poised at true,in this season when night and day are equal,by moonlight and sunlight,come with your holy searchlightas I survey the different calls on my life.Be in my discernment of time as I go between world and home today.Help me to discover my needfor busyness and rest,for solitudeContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 16th March”

“I’ve found something so rare,So miraculous,No-one can assessHow much it is worth. It is colourless and One;It is eternal and indivisible;The waves of change never break over it;It fills every vessel. It has no weight; it has no price;No-one can ever measure it;No-one can count it;It cannot be knownThrough talk or erudition.It isn’t heavy andContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 9th March”