Join us for a service of Word and Prayer via Zoom as we mark the beginning of this Holy Season of Lent. Lent is usually marked, as are...
Ash Wednesday IBecause I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope to turnDesiring this man's gift and...
As you may have seen elsewhere (like here), we have begun our Lenten journey with a blog which will share a poem a day through this...
Lent It is good to be last not first, Pending the present distress;It is good to hunger and thirst,So it be for...
Blessing the Dust All those daysyou felt like dust,like dirt,as if all you had to dowas turn your facetoward the windand be...
For Courage When the light around lessensAnd your thoughts darken untilYour body feels fear turnCold as a stone inside, When you find...
The Place Where We Are Right From the place where we are rightflowers will never growin the spring. The place where we are rightis...
We invite you to join us for a livestreamed choral evensong, an opportunity for quiet, reflection and prayer on this the first Sunday...
Thanks Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are...
The Third Yes My first yes was eager and earnest and ill-thoughtit was spirited and bouncing and saw the wholeworld like a Chicago...
Poetry For Supper 'Listen, now, verse should be as naturalAs the small tuber that feeds on muckAnd grows slowly from obtuse soilTo the...
God Went to India To see the elephants.God adores elephants.He thinks they arethe best thingHe ever made.They do everythingHe hoped...
Just Like Job My Lord, my Lord,Long have I cried out to TheeIn the heat of the sun,The cool of the moon,My screams searched the...
Join Murray for midday prayers, available to watch below at noon.
From tonight, every Tuesday through Lent at 9pm Pacific Time (email Alastair here to ask for zoom link, or join in on our Facebook...
Saint Francis and the Sow The budstands for all things,even for those things that don’t flower,for everything flowers, from within,...
E Tenebris Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,For I am drowning in a stormier seaThan Simon on thy lake of Galilee:The...
When Death Comes When death comeslike the hungry bear in autumn;when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy...
Blame the Vicar When things go wrong it's rather tameTo find we are ourselves to blame,It gets the trouble over quickerTo go and blame...
God's Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God.It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a...
It has taken a few days, but here at last is the recording from Tuesday's Compline. If you would like to participate via Zoom (you...
Join us in worship as we celebrate the Eucharist on the second Sunday of Lent We will be gathering on Zoom with portions of the...
We Wear the Mask We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes—This debt we pay to human guile;With...
Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloesaround the streetlights in Parisand what I see is an aberrationcaused...
A reminder that today's Daily Prayers are part of our Lenten Wilderness Prayers series, led by Bill Tarter and Colleen Lissamer. They...
Days What are days for?Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over.They are to be happy in: Where can we live...
Lenten Poem Lent is a time to take time to let the powerof our faith story take hold of us,a time to let the events get upand walk...
Church Going Once i am sure there's nothing going onI step inside letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting seats and stone...
I Said to Poetry I said to Poetry: "I'm finishedwith you."Having to almost diebefore some wierd lightcomes creeping throughis no fun....
You Begin You begin this way:this is your hand,this is your eye,this is a fish, blue and flaton the paper, almostthe shape of an...
Join us for an online retreat during Lent. Led by Colleen Lissamer, Margaret Walters, and Bill Tarter, our theme is Finding an Oasis...
I Go Among Trees And Sit Still I go among trees and sit still.All my stirring becomes quietaround me like circles on water.My tasks...
If I Could Tell You Time will say nothing but I told you so,Time only knows the price we have to pay;If I could tell you I would let...
Song Of A Dream Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;...
Do It Anyway People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you...
Via Negativa Why no! I never thought other thanThat God is that great absenceIn our lives, the empty silenceWithin, the place where we...
The Celestial Fire Now an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a blazing fire -- a fire that devours fire;a fire that burns in...
Our Prayers for today, along with a poem and reflection, were led for us via zoom and broadcast on Facebook by Colleen Lissamer....
Our Weekly Compline through Lent was led for us by Alastair from his back Patio! The video is below - if you wish to join in Compline...
The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;Nine...
This is what was bequeathed us ListenThis is what was bequeathed us:This earth the beloved leftAnd, leaving,Left to us. No other...
Alone Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is not stoneI came up with one...
What to Remember When Waking In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,coming back to this life from the other,more...
Messenger My work is loving the world.Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird –equal seekers of sweetness.Here the quickening...
For Lent, 1966 It is my Lent to break my Lent,To eat when I would fast,To know when slender strength is spent,Take shelter from the...
Kindness Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened...
Pray For Peace Pray to whomever you kneel down to:Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross,his suffering face bent to...
Clear heart Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. —Psalm 51.10 Beloved,amid the clutter within...
Come and Journey Come and journey with a Saviour who has called us from our birth, who has washed us in the waters, and who loved us...
Today's Compline at 9pm will be live via zoom (email for link) and on our St John The Divine Facebook Page, led by Alastair. It is the...
Impossibility The salt water in the swimming holesurrounded me last night saying,Trust yourself. They need you. Bring only love, the...
Today's Poem was submitted by Parishioner and Parish Councillor Susan Bansgrove: Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward Let mans Soule...
Our Daily Prayers today are going live on our Facebook Page at noon with Alastair. The order is taken from A Disciples Prayer Book of...
When sorrow comes When sorrow comes, let us accept it simply, as a part of life.Let the heart be open to pain; let it be stretched by...
Gethsemane The grass never sleeps.Or the roses.Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning. Jesus said, wait with...
The Way of Pain 1.For parents, the only wayis hard. We who give lifegive pain. There is no help.Yet we who give paingive love; by pain...
Silent God This is my prayer—That, though I may not see,I be awareOf the Silent GodWho stands by me.That, though I may not feel,I be...
This evening at 7pm there will be a Holy Week service live on our St John the Divine Facebook Page and on zoom (email here for the...
We are baffled Christ is RisenHe is risen indeed!We are baffled by the very Easter claim we voice.Your new life fits none of our...
"And yet ..." each piece carefully and thoughtfully removedlayers peeled awayharsh, barren surfacesand yet ... The light dimmedThe...