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Grace Upon Grace

From God's fullness we have all received, grace upon grace

Wheat field. Photo credit: Melissa Askew on Unsplash.

“and in another thirty”

"But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."

Ruined building at Hiroshima Ground Zero. Image credit: Rap Dela Rea on Unsplash.

Intercessions, The Blessed Virgin Mary, 2025

Written for the 5.30pm Eucharist at Exeter Cathedral

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Tending fig trees

I'm wondering. Who is the man? Who is the gardener? And why hasn't the gardener been doing his job for three years?

“What is the point of contemplative prayer?”

Or are we asking the wrong questions? For one of the points of contemplative prayer is that it has no point, and our goal-oriented and purpose-driven world finds this hard to grasp.

Ploughing a field with oxen. Photo credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz on Pexels.

Guided Meditation: Jesus speaks to the weary

An imaginative meditation on Jesus as he is teaching 'I will give you rest'.

“Prayer at/on the edge”

“Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, And he pushed, And they flew.” – Christopher Logue

Clare Bryden. Photo credit markburley.co.uk

I have been a Christian for more than thirty years. For many year I sought to live out my faith in working to encourage care for the environment as God’s creation and justice for our neighbours across the earth and in future generations. Nowadays, I simply try to live in that way, paying attention, and underpinned by a calling to contemplative prayer.