I love the year end because it provides an opportunity to sit and look back over your shoulder and discover quite how many things have happened in the chunk of time of single year. On […]
Month: December 2017
Poem: Song for a Winter Birth
from the anthology ‘haphazard by starlight’
Today is Christmas Eve
A long while ago now, I read an article about someone whose brother had died,
“There’s a phrase,” she says, “‘the situation is hopeless, but not serious’. That’s how I see life, and all these things that are just dreadful. If you don’t laugh at them, you would curl up in a heap and wail.”
On Resting
What I’ve been learning about rest + some practicalities
A Countdown to Hope (it’s advent)
The greatest has come – to serve and love and share life with the least. The author has written Himself into the story.
Poem: Blackbird in Fulham
from the anthology ‘haphazard by starlight’
Michaelmas Term 2017
A little look back at the last couple of months…
Dorothy Day – “Jesus, they have no wine”
Selected quotes from ‘Dorothy Day: Selected Writings’
Fruits of the Spirit
A look back over a term of thinking on the fruits of the spirit.
(8) Week Love
A reflection on Week Love.
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