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“If you want to draw near to God,seek him in the hearts of those around you.Speak well of all, present or absent.If you would be a light for others,be like the sun: show the same face to all.To bring joy to a single heart is betterthan building countless shrines for worship;to capture one heart throughContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 29th June”

For the Summer Solstice “Don’t tell me about the end of the world.Tell me about the beginning.Befriend entropy.Assume this exhalation is your lastand you are on the slope of a final heartbeat. Be a wing that glides on gravity, risingonly by surrender, never quite knowinghow this melody is made from listened silences. A thousand skiesContinue reading “Words for Week Beginning Monday 22nd June”

“Who can tell how lovely in June is thehoney locust tree, or whya tree should be so sweet and livein this world? Each white blossomon a dangle of white flowers holds one green seed–a new life. Also each blossom on a dangle of flowerholds a flaskof fragrance called Heaven, which is never sealed.The bees circleContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 15th June”

“See the flowers, so faithful to Earth.We know their fate because we share it.Were they to grieve for their wilting,that grief would be ours to feel. There’s a lightness in things. Only we move forever burdened,pressing ourselves into everything, obsessed by weight.How strange and devouring our ways must seemto those for whom life is enough.Continue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 8th June”

For The Feast of the Visitation “Here is a meeting made of hidden joys,Of lightnings cloistered in a narrow place,From quiet hearts the sudden flame of praiseAnd in the womb the quickening kick of grace.Two women on the very edge of thingsUnnoticed and unknown to men of power,But in their flesh the hidden Spirit singsAndContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 1st June”

For Pentecost / Whit Sunday “Life-force of God, you make the sap to rise,the swelling of bud to burst the sheath.May I let the fruits of your Spirit grow in me this day.Spirit of love abide in my ears as I listen to stories different to mine own.Spirit of joy beam in my eyes asContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 25th May”

“Just when you seem to yourselfnothing but a flimsy webof questions, you are giventhe questions of others to holdin the emptiness of your hands,songbird eggs that can still hatchif you keep them warm,butterflies opening and closing themselvesin your cupped palms, trusting you not to injuretheir scintillant fur, their dust.You are given the questions of othersasContinue reading “Words for week beginning Monday 18th May”

“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”