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“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”

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”