Awareness walks
Set off alone and start walking. Find your own space and breathe deeply. Be aware of your own body. Feel your limbs and the ground under your feet.
Lectio Divina: “What then will this child become?”
A word from Luke 1.57-66, the story of the birth of John the Baptist.
Lectio Divina: “two of his disciples”
A word from Luke 7.18b-23, a conversation between Jesus and disciples of John the Baptist.
“Waiting on God”
It is hard going against the flow of today’s culture, and waiting for anything. So it might be helpful to think in terms of waiting on God.
Shared Lectio Divina, November 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: November 2021.
Considering the body
I don’t necessarily articulate in my mind my understanding of an action as my body performs it during the liturgy. Most of the time, I let that physical action be my expression of intention and my offering.
“Explore Prayer” for Exeter Cathedral news
You are infinitely loved by God, and God is waiting and longing to be with you. Prayer is simply the expression of our relationship with God.
Shared Lectio Divina, October 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: October 2021.
Shared Lectio Divina, September 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: September 2021.
The gift of the blue bottle
It is prayer hour in the convent chapel on a sunny summer morning. Dust motes swirl idly in the sun’s rays streaming through the high windows. The chapel is still, apart from a solitary blue bottle.
Shared Lectio Divina, July 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: July 2021.
“Someone”, an imaginative meditation
An invitation into encounter, through a guided meditation on the vignette in Matthew 12.46-50.
“Someone”, a creative reflection
Anyone is invited to share in Jesus’ most intimate relationship: his relationship with his “Father in heaven”. Everyone may be a Someone.
New blog, old posts
I was increasingly feeling that I wanted to write more about my prayer and spirituality. I therefore started this new blog…
Shared Lectio Divina, June 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: June 2021.
Shared Lectio Divina, April 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: April 2021.
Slow Book Group: The Cloud of Unknowing
Some notes on running a group reading The Cloud together. Through it, we hoped to gain a deeper understanding of prayer and through that to deepen our own prayer lives and relationships with God.
Seeing and believing and living
Another in my very irregular series of ‘were I to have preached’… What happens when we look at the two stories of Mary Magdalene at the tomb and Doubting Thomas together?
#DIYLent #poetry #light #prayer
In this year of quarantine, I have been observing a DIY Lent. I thought it would be wonderful to get together (via Zoom of course) with one or two different friends each week. Both of us bring a poem, or piece of poetic prose, or art, or music to share and reflect on.
Shared Lectio Divina, March 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: March 2021.
Shared Lectio Divina, February 2021
My reflections during shared Lectio on the Gospel reading: February 2021.
Life is like a box of tesserae
There is a bi-i-ig difference between jigsaws and mosaics. Jigsaws have only one correct solution. Mosaic tiles can be pieced together in many different ways to create many different images.
