Ash Wednesday with Hopkins
The ‘justice’ of our Lord may forever remain a mystery in human terms, but God initiates a relationship with Him which has space wide.....
Ash Wednesday
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears The deceitful face of hope and despair. TS Eliot, Ash Wednesday Stepping out of our...
'And to one God says....': a reading and reflection on the poem 'Mediations' by R.S.Thomas
Mediations by R.S.Thomas And to one God says: Come to me by numbers and figures : see my beauty in the angles between stars, in the...
'A single dead prawn': A reading and reflection on the poem 'At the End' by R.S.Thomas
At the End by R.S.Thomas Few possessions: a chair, a table, a bed to say my prayers by, and, gathered from the shore, the bone-like,...
'Was I waiting for something?': A reading and reflection on the poem 'Sea-watching' by R.S.Thomas
Sea-watching by R.S.Thomas Grey waters, vast as an area of prayer that one enters. Daily, over a period of years I have let the eye rest...
'I Go Down to the Shore' by Mary Oliver
A Reflection by Carol O'Connor I Go Down to the Shore I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are...