Low Sunday?

Low Sunday?

Often I try to analyse the quality of its silences. Is this where God hides from my searching?…   These are the hard ribs of a body that our prayers have failed to animate. Shadows advance from their corners to take possession of places the light held for...
Passiontide

Passiontide

Thus far I did come laden with my sin; Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in Till I came hither; What a place is this: Must here be the beginning of my bliss? Must here the burden fall from off my back? Must here the strings that bound it to me crack? Blest...
Finding God at the cross

Finding God at the cross

Either I determine the place in which I find God, or I allow God to determine the place where he will be found. If it is I who say where God will be, I will always find there a God who in some way corresponds to me, is agreeable to me, fits in with my nature. But if...
Good Friday

Good Friday

…The Carpenter had done his work well to sustain the carpenter’s burden; the cross an example of the power of art to transcend timber.   R.S. Thomas (1913-2000).
No cross; no crown

No cross; no crown

No pain; no palm. No thorns; no throne. No gall; no glory. No cross; no crown.   William Penn (1644-1718).