veins
Look: how they grow to be each other.
In their veins there is only God.
Each other's axis, a shimmering shape
that glows, like fire, a rapture, a delight.
They thirst, and are each other's wine;
see, how they are each other's seeing.
Let us let each rejoice into
HEALTHCARE, WHOLENESS & HEALING Saturday, 7th March 2015
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Diocese of Bath and Wells
Diocesan Healing Group event
HEALTHCARE, WHOLENESS & HEALING
Saturday, 7th March 2015
Healthcare is increasingly driven by clinical outcomes, budgets, targets and political constraints. This is at the expense of whole-p
who died?
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who died?
When death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I l
Auckland Castle
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I have very vivid memories of visiting Auckland Castle as a sixth form student beginning to wonder about my vocation to the ordained ministry in the Church of England. At a young people's gathering in the Throne room of this imposing building I remember the Bishop of Durham, John
Sermon for Christmas eve St George's Chapel Windsor 2014
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St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle
Christmas Eve Communion 2014: The Christmas Truce
This evening I want to remind you of something very remarkable that happened exactly 100 years ago to this day. The world was at five months into an armed conflict that ended the lives of f
into His Peace
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And because of His visitation, we may no
longer desire God as if He were lacking: our
redemption is no longer a question of pursuit
but of surrender to Him who is always and
everywhere present. Therefore at every moment
we pray that, following Him, we may depart from
ou
The Christmas Truce
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The Christmas Truce
One hundred years ago the world was at war - it was a conflict that changed the world for ever and at this anniversary we have been remembering its impact upon the families and communities in our country. In particular we remember with sorrow our human cap
The twenty third day of December
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O come, O come, thou calling child:
the creatures, those both tame and wild,
the weak and pow’rful, coax along
and change their trembling into song.
Rejoice! Rejoice! The vuln’rable
shall make us all insep’rable
Jim Cotter
Expectant : Verses for Adv
The twenty- first day of December
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O Come, O come, thou shaft of fire,
to lead us on through dark and mire;
through desert bare thou moving cloud
protect and guide, fulfil what's vowed.
Rejoice! rejoice! Our God afresh
the covenant shall soon enflesh
Expectant : Words for Advent Jim Cotter
Understanding Age? Face the Future….
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It has been a great pleasure to offer a Forward to this stimulating contribution the literature on old age by the delightful William Cutting
Foreword - (Face the Future. Book 2. Challenges, Joy and Faith for Seniors)
Like many of you reading this book I am thankful fo
What is illusory?
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focus
Walking, snow falling, it is possible
to focus at various distances
in turn on separate flakes, sharply engage
the attention at several spatial points:
the nearer cold and more uncomfortable,
the farther distanced and almost pleasing.
Living, time passing, it is
Radiant
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radiant
this blessing
God's love
calls us
to that elsewhere world
which only lovers
eyes alight, eyes aflame
can see at all.
only those who have
self surrendered:
once, they were flecks of fire;
now, they are
the radiant sun.
Rumi
to love and obey
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The French scientist and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin sums it up nicely in his book “The Divine Milieu.” He writes:
“God obviously has no need of the products of your busy activity since he could give himself everything without you. The only thing that c
Feast on your life?
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Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread.
intricate
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intricate
Intricate and untraceable
weaving and interweaving,
dark strand with light:
designed, beyond
all spiderly contrivance,
to link, not to entrap:
elation, grief, joy, contrition, entwined;
shaking, changing,
forever
forming,
transforming:
all praise,
all prais
Each minute the last minute.
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delicate
The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.
The wind blowing, the leaves
shivering in the sun,
each day the last day.
A red salamander
so cold and so
easy to catch, dreamily
moves his delicate feet
and long tail. I hold
my ha
unspoken…..
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unspoken Autumn
The black moon turns away, its work done.
A tenderness, unspoken autumn.
We are faithful only to the imagination.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
What holds you to what you see of me is
that grasp alone.
from Denise Levertov, E
the right word at the right time!
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acting with no expectations
Can you coax your mind from its wandering
and keep to the original oneness?
Can you let your body become
supple as a newborn child's?
Can you cleanse your inner vision
until you see nothing but the light?
Can you love people and lead them
without
Dressing Up?
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We all have an ambiguous relationship with Authority or power and so we should as Christians.
I wonder when you last felt powerless? To be powerless is something we all fear briefly clothed, but God laughs when we take it too, so we anxiously remind ourselves of all our vir