I was searching for a poem to begin a staff meeting: I think it is something that would deepen most business meetings and get all of us that can’t step back and become too intense and focussed to think in a different way, but I digress. I was looking for something that was Christian inContinue reading “Be still…”
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Back from an island…
I got back from a wilderness retreat a week or so ago. I’ve taken part in these for some time now; the experience grows in my mind and imagination even more when I’ve left. We pick an island and sail: this year it was going to be Insh, but the tides didn’t work out, soContinue reading “Back from an island…”
59
I remember once reading that your late 50s and early 60s are a time when you can get the most conservative and resistant to change: the siren call of nostalgia- ‘things were better then’ , an awareness that everything that is touted as ‘the next big thing’ you’ve seen in at least three different iterationsContinue reading “59”
In the wilderness.
‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone’ (Blaise Pascal). I’ve been back a few days from a yearly ‘wilderness retreat’ and it was beautiful; hard, tiring, full of laughter, tears & honesty and at times almost overwhelming. The wilderness doesn’t exist for you or me and theseContinue reading “In the wilderness.”
Empty
The phone Charging Blinks at me ‘23 minutes until full’ If only…’ I’m indebted to the cultural influence of Methodism in my life. It has left me with the idea that faith isn’t purely personal but has social, political, environmental etc implications: it is impossible to separate the two. I could cite so many examples,Continue reading “Empty”
Wearily Hopeful 