Journey – Prayers, Poems, and Christian Ponderings

Fairy Tale!

Fairy Tale!He built himself a house, his foundations his stones, his walls, his roof overhead his chminey and smoke, his view from the window. He made himself a garden his fence, his thyme his earthworm his evening dew, He cut out his bit of sky above. And he wrapped the garden in the skyand theContinue reading “Fairy Tale!”

“For years I counted hugs.”

I could not imagine an Advent season without T.S. Eliot’s poem – The Journey of the Magi Please take a moment to delight in Eliot’s poem and ponder the Wisemen’s question – were we led all that way for Birth or Death? The poem is long so I shall be brief. Perhaps what was travellingContinue reading ““For years I counted hugs.””

A little while after!

In the gospel of Matthew, chapter 2, we read of the journey of the wisemen from the east. When they actually arrived is not known, but we should not be surprised to learn that it may well have been some days or many weeks after the birth of the child. However, let us not fuss about theContinue reading “A little while after!”