My heart is heavy with the weight of complicity And I will weave no more Where the weft is warped so darkly And the straw we would have spun to goldIs straw still at the lastAnd breaks in my hand And cuts my fingers till they bleed. I will go out now And I will…
There’s a certain power in knowing you are going to find something. It’s called confidence – which means With Faith, if you know your latin. And I think that lots of us have got into a habit of thinking we aren’t going to get something, so we don’t. And there we are; stuck. But tonight…
I put out my poems on my handsLike food for the birds. I listen out for their coming,For their wings against the sky. I hear them first and close my eyes. Sometimes the sound of their flutteringMakes me afraid, but I stand firm and I hold up my armsAgainst the dark and their mysterious coming….
When I saw this window in the Garden by the pool of Bethsaida, I thought it was scary, so I photographed it! I thought, ‘Wow, the Prince is going to have to do a good bit of thorny-wood-chopping with the sword of innocence to get through to the sleeping princess in that castle!’ Do you…
A black sheep ate my business notes,I tell you cos it’s true.I went to a business enterprise classBut I ended up in a zoo. Because just beside Wandsworth Business VillageLies ‘King George’s Park”And with rabbits, canaries and budgies and goats,It’s a regular Urban Ark. And so I dawdled down Cherry Tree Walk;There were no business…
‘As the Hasidic master Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav said, “Everything in this world has a heart; the heart itself has its own heart.” I was reading www.aish.com today, looking for thoughts on the Heart and found this – Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel today took out a full-page ad in the Wall…
For the Hirsch Family in Mea Sherim Jerusalem 2010 June They greet each other with joy and tenderness as they enter. The word they use is the Yiddish ‘Shabbos!’, but it is pronounced Shabbis!Having spent an evening on the Blessed Sabbath Friday evening with this family and talking to Shoshanah, I felt so blessed and…
This is my Valentine’s Card to whoever doesn’t have one today! I photographed these strawberries in Slough this summer, and they look happy. So Happy Valentine’s Day wherever you are in life or on the planet. Let it shine!
I’m sorry, but God is out of control. It’s alarming, but clear to see.He’s embarking on more and more projects each dayWithout consulting me. What I think it would be wise to doIs to section him off, on his ownIn a place where His schemes can play out to the fullBut He’ll chiefly be ‘Home…
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