#BIGRead14: Simplicity
#BIGRead14 I love today’s poem (and in fact chose it as the poem for the postcards that we sent out all over the place). It reminds me of one of Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Gentleness
#BIGRead14 A real prayer for graceful, gentle living today …. And the line ‘steady us when we panic’ particularly apt (yes)today, as I got on the train, and my recently Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Irony
#BIGRead14 Incredibly grateful to a new friend who has recently sold a large business and is giving a handful of women performance coaching .. We spoke for 1.5 hours last Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Courage
#BIGRead14 I’ve just got my laptop back, and before I pack for #SH2014, and head to bed, these words echo: Give me eyes to see beauty, dignity and grace in Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Kindness
#BIGRead14 Beautiful words today (and read by a friend who has kindly offered me her sofa on several occasions…: Although I am grateful, I rarely appreciate the kindness of others as Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Generosity
#BIGRead14 A call to be generous with our time and our money…. My brain is whirling between ‘responsible’ and ‘courageous’ in our giving… Including of ourselves. As I’m spending a Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Hosanna
#BIGRead14 Just: Heroic Son of David: heal us, and give us the hope we cannot grasp. Amen. #Do1NiceThing: Thank people for the virtues they have Maggi Dawn Encouraged by coming across Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Pain
#BIGRead14 Today’s poem, on pain, makes me think of a number of verses in Genesis, where the ground is cursed, labour is cursed, and life is made so much more Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Untie My Depths
#BIGRead14 Today’s poem gives a real sense of ‘struggle’, seeking to find ‘meaning’, but getting caught up and tangled in what we are already caught up in: Disentangle me, Lord. Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Monochrome (#SH2014)
#BIGRead14 As someone who loves colour, today’s poem is a challenge, particularly: Let me be, then, more black and white in who I am, what I say, what I do. Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Too Difficult
#BIGRead14 Today’s poem … Yes, it is too much to ask. Yes, it is too difficult. that’s the point. Give me the grace to do the difficult thing today. Not Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Mysterious Cross #sh2014 #eastermeans
#BIGRead14 Today’s poem focuses upon the Cross, and the complacency that so many of us of us have towards it because of its familiarity – and an encouragement to re-engage Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Contemplation
#BIGRead14 Well, after a day which has been mostly about not working (although setting up online service for tomorrow has taken a tad longer than expected), this poem seems appropriate in Continue...
View Article#BIGRead14: Embracing the Mystery
#BIGRead14 Today’s poem Help me to be clear about this at least: that I know little; that I miss more than I see; that I am surprised more often, far Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: O Thou
#BIGRead14 Today’s poem can be hard to read – because Stephen appears to be trying to articulate something that’s hard to articulate: O beginning! O beauty! O brilliance! O wonder! Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Reconciliation
#BIGRead14 Today’s poem focuses on ‘Reconciliation‘ – a tough topic, that we can all too easily skim over. Having just spent the day on an excellent ‘emotional intelligence’ course with Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Joy // #Luke2Acts
#BIGRead14 Death and taxes .. the only certainties in life, right? Today’s poem on ‘joy’ Unpredictable, undemanding joy, let me dissolve into your abundant sufficiency, your limitless expansiveness,...
View Article#BIGRead14: Breeze #Luke2Acts
#BIGRead14 I have to say a breezy day (preferably a warm, breezy day) is one of my favourite kinds of weather, so I love the fact that Stephen’s poem today looks Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Dying #Luke2Acts
#BIGRead14 Only two certainties in life, right? Death and taxes? Today’s poem deals with dying, and the sense of ‘slipping away’ … although Ernie’s comments earlier today that death for Continue Reading →
View Article#BIGRead14: Amen #Luke2Acts
#BIGRead14 The final poem in Stephen Cherry’s encouraging but challenging series for Lent – starts and ends with ‘Amen‘ (so be it) – as it is ‘over to you’, and Continue Reading →
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