Free as a bird
Acoss the slow, sunlit mornings of this lovely Spring I have officed in the garden. There I write, read and pray. ‘Lord, […]
Month: April 2020
Waiting
Come before the winter next my love,before the frost traps fern fronds on the panebefore the world flies south to keep alivebefore the […]
the gift of tears
This article is was published in the September to December 2018 issue of Lee Abbey, Rapport magazine. Down through history, and […]
Stan – a poem
Lord, have mercy on a man whose hardest cross we only glimpsed was caring much who all these days looked […]
You lie there … – poem
You lie, as always, head tipped forwards on the awkward abundance of those pillows. Today you are near the surface.But more often the climb is […]
As indifferent as the rain – poem
This Island has no interest in meIt just lets me be I generally need more attention thoughso I have been treating it […]
Send in the spies
Sermon at service for licensing of lay ministriesLeicester Cathedral ReadingsNumbers 13: 1-2, 27-33Ephesians 4: 1-6Luke 10: 17-20 If those bible readings were […]
Living in remembrance
A Remembrance Day sermon I was standing at the War Memorial on Sunday as many of you were. I spoke the words […]
The hospitable God
An extract from a piece written for Celebrating Community (ed Emma Ineson and Chris Edmondson, pub DLT) – a book commissioned by […]
Tinnitus and the sound of God
‘Let anyone who has an ear to hear, listen …..’ Rev 3.13 Along with many in our society I am hearing impaired. […]