Marker Posts and Shelters
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Wondering Wednesdays – inspired by Francis
Yesterday we attended a study day on St Francis. Each session began with a prayer and included some of the prayers and insights inspired by studying Francis. This one from Ilia Delio particularly spoke to me: Creation flows from the fountain fulness of creative energy. Springing…
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Honest grief: we are tired of poor advice
Sally and I collect resources for unknown future needs. I read this one that Sally found at the beginning of our annual parish memorial service today. It seemed to resonate. I am sure we have all tried to be kind with good motives in the support we have offered others in the…
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Friday photo – how clear is your reflection?
I love it when there is so little wind that you can see a good reflection in the water. This was earlier this week and this is a tidal area so along with the sun to aid the reflection three things came together to make this photo possible! I have written similarly before but am…
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Wondering Wednesdays – choosing how to look
This past weekend I had the joy of looking through someone else’s books – they had the same sort of volume as us so it was a good time. One of the books I picked up was by Christine Sine and I copied this poem as it seems apt at the moment – Choosing to […]
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Musing Aloud: history is sometimes encouraging
Today I went to a site reputed to be the location of the first full immersion baptism in the UK. Our annual Holy Island retreat group, the Causeway Collective, have decided to also trial an annual house party. It was held at a member’s home in Llanfyllin, mid Wales. This well is…
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Friday photo – so many mysteries!
Our walk to Wistman’s wood part 2! I love spending time on the moors – so many ways my imagination is challenged to wonder and speculate. This was the path we took to get to the wood and in some places it seemed like granite stepping stones had been put in place. I imagine it […]
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Wondering Wednesdays – releasing grief in landscape
Part of what I did on Sunday on the first anniversary of Mum’s death is go for a walk on Dartmoor to Wistman’s Wood. As you can see in the pictures it is full of lichen and moss and is an ancient landscape which helps me put things in perspective. The trees may well be […]
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Reflections from an Ankarji: unappreciated ordinary beauty
Although we were at the seaside, it was a starling, rather than a seagull, that came on the scrounge at our table. It’s timing was not great as we had not even ordered! It’s searching gave me time to appreciate the beauty of this once more common bird. It is not just a…
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Friday photo – layers of meaning
I spent a couple of days this week on what felt like a retreat in a lighthouse. Something I had wanted to do for many years. My favourite place was the lantern room with 360 views. This picture shows reflections, light, dawn, seats, windows, so many things I am not ready to…
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Wondering Wednesdays – need a new antidote
We are having a few days away this week and some of it I am spending reading, alternating between a novel I have been saving and a spiritual book exploring Sabbath I was struck by this paragraph as I approach my second year as an orphan… There is a tendency to interpret God’s…
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Honest Christianity: what can we sometimes only say?
I had the privilege of going to the soft launch of this bereavement journal yesterday. It is written and designed by 2 members of my old team at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Chaplaincy Team. It is a beautiful example of soothing spirits when life is at its hardest…
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Friday photo – three generations
I have no idea how old I am in this picture or where we were and there is noone left to tell me! It looks like a pebbly beach so may well be Sussex or Hampshire! I came across this photo in a pile above my desk. I don’t know how it got separated from […]