In this season of Lent we journey toward Easter and the theme of pilgrimage is a familair way to make our preparations for discipleship. It is hard to imagine that in the turmoil of Elizabethan England, pilgrimage was itself prohibited as was all use of catholic imagery following The Reformation. The photo above is ofContinue reading “Pilgrimage”
Monthly Archives: February 2026
“…seagulls are grounded”
“How To Speak Love In A Storm?” How to speak love in a storm?depends on the substance of the voice,as the trees rageand roof tiles smash,where seagulls are groundedand there is only chaos. How to speak love in a storm?is to put up a signpost for the lost,as on the bitter hillsideyou lie murmuring,‘Why isContinue reading ““…seagulls are grounded””
“Death has come here on holiday…”
From Minneapolis in Januaryby Michael Bazzett We live in the numbnessof an occupied citywhere every story has anotherstory curled inside its labyrinth— and when Sleep readsto you at bedtime, it isthe nested one that comesslinking out to sew you, with tiny stitches andscarlet thread, to the mattress.It is a story that believes itselfto be permanentContinue reading ““Death has come here on holiday…””
Prayers, Poems, and Christian Ponderings 