Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Words, words, words ...

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I've been reading. Of course, there's never a time when I don't have a book on the go, but that's fiction. As it's Lent ...
Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Springing thoughts

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Two days after the last snow left I saw the tiny hint of life in colour, purple, on the mud which rain had flooded winter-long, a...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Another Advent

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Another Advent For Andy, who suggested the possibility. From the darkness that returns each year we sing our plaintive song and ask t...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Not easy on a bus

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I was reflecting the other day how much more difficult simple faith (in God, mostly, on this occasion, but not exclusively) has become in th...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

The meeting

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THE MEETING This the night when under the dark dome the hard stars shine and that one shines brighter than them all, the night when ...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

All we go down ...

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I was at a funeral yesterday, not as a mourner but as a provider of music, one of a quartet singing the Kontakion for the Departed at th...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Remembering on All Souls

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Holy Trinity Dunoon: All Souls This evening we remembered. We lit candles in front of the altar for family and friends lost. We conside...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Snuffing out the candles

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 We are in the season of Epiphany. Today I took down the (moulting) tree, put the decorations back in the loft, looked out at the rain, no...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

November - a poem for the season of remembrance

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NOVEMBER The month of remembering - the lines of men in the stubble fields the hideous scramble over a muddy parapet, the cring...
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Saturday, March 09, 2013

A Lenten poem

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Road through the Nevada desert Eyes wide open One pale, quiet morning,  I open my soul’s eyes  unarmed with faith or company,  ...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Never constituted to be a saint*

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I finished reading Richard Holloway's Leaving Alexandria last week, but was overtaken by sunshine and the desire to be out of doors so...
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