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Mary, Mother
. With your warm hands heal me in your body know me to your darkness draw me at your breast hold me. For I was homesick, and you brought me home; I was alone, and now I am in touch; … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Reflect
Tagged darkness, home, Janet Morley, Mary, mother, poem, poetry, prayer, tenderness, touch, warmth
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Momentous Change
Suddenly, the door is wide open. And I feel like I have a home again. A mother. It is an unusual moment of positive change happening that feels so enormous that it takes time to be processed and ‘digested’. I … Continue reading
Finding Words to Respond [Tell It Like It Is]
Trigger warning: mention of child abuse Today I give thanks for having been able to send an honest email to my mother, in reply to her trying to use my little niece’s start of school this summer to guilt-trip me into … Continue reading
Joy-Challenged
Originally posted on Richer By Far:
“Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin . “In some religious circles, joy, humor, and laughter are viewed as excessive, irrelevant, ridiculous, inappropriate, and even scandalous.…
Posted in Reflect
Tagged challenge, choice, clarity, courage, expectations, God, guilt, happiness, joy, mother, separation
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Yoga – God and Me and My Chakras
After work today, I went to a yoga class. Chakras. Incense sticks. The photograph of a woman whose name I can’t remember, a candle in front of that, and us repeating 16 times, “Mother, I am the Spirit”, and various … Continue reading
Posted in Reflect
Tagged chakra, Christian, communion, culture, experience, exploration, fear, God, Hindu, joy, kundalini, meaning, meditation, mother, openness, prayer, religion, religious practice, risk, scepticism, spirituality, tradition, truth, understanding, yoga
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What About Me?
If I want my life to be different – and I do – then I need to change the way I make decisions. That’s according to my most recent brainwave. The decisions we’re talking about here are those that concern … Continue reading
Posted in Reflect
Tagged abuse, belonging, blame, boundaries, change, clarity, co-dependency, decision, decision-making, distance, experience, family, father, forgiveness, fragile, freedom, fullness of life, God, healing, justice, love, mother, needs, obedience, parents, peace, self-denial, silence, strength, support, truth, unconditional, understanding
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Thanks Be To God
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/church-england-general-synod-approves-female-bishops Women can be bishops in the Church of England. Finally. Reason to celebrate, absolutely. But the general feeling seems to be that everyone is a little too exhausted to dance… The church lost face by not getting the necessary … Continue reading
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Tagged anglican, blessing, blindness, celebration, choice, church, Church of England, election, equality, evangelical, freedom, General Synod, gift, God, good news, Jesus, joy, justice, Justin Welby, mercy, mother, Phoebe Willetts, poem, truth, vote, woman bishops
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