Simon Armitage – Prayers, Poems, and Christian Ponderings

Anyone for Cricket?

I continue to amuse, if not embarrass, my sons with my ideas as to how baseball could be made into an interesting game! However, before I make my rules changes public I would do well to look again at the English game of cricket which can take 5 days to play and end in aContinue reading “Anyone for Cricket?”

Illuminated possibility!

Today I am turning to the poem The Straight and Narrow by British poet Simon Armitage. It is such a fun poem, yet if we are not too fast, and read it carefully, and over and over again, possibility emerges beyond the first thought of nostalgia. The poem begins by recalling those “school career nights”Continue reading “Illuminated possibility!”

Give

We are each familiar with the morning scene on High Streets, Main Streets, City Streets. We don’t have to travel far to come across the plight of the homeless, whose only comfort might be a warm blanket on a door step, hoping some indoor heat might escape. Why are we tempted to walk a littleContinue reading “Give”