17/04/202012/05/2021Personal stuff 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 […]
17/04/202012/05/2021Personal stuff Stan – a poem Lord, have mercy on a man whose hardest cross we only glimpsed was caring much who all these days looked […]
17/04/202012/05/2021Personal stuff 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 […]
17/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff 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 […]
17/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff 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. […]
16/04/202012/05/2021Personal stuff Gloucester Cathedral – poem Gloucester Cathedral First Light draws back the covers on the building site we are all callingPilgrimrevealing an unscheduled Flower FestivalNo one saw it arriving or […]
04/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff Running in the dark Awake very early without reason – and none is needed. So here I am, well before the dawn, jogging on the towpath […]
03/04/202007/09/2024Life and faith, Personal stuff 40 years on … Forty years ago on, on 30th September 1979 …. I was ordained at St Paul’s Cathedral and began a curacy at Holy […]
03/04/202012/05/2021Life and faith, Personal stuff Pilgrim – poem Pilgrim Today off the corner of the island of Saints the sea is wildGod’s firstborn have surfaced there chaos monsters […]