Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. On rest.
As I reflected with my Spiritual Director on rest, she recalled a podcast conversation on seven types of rest / rest deficiency. Listening to Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith and Mia Freedman [...]
Playing well with others
or: with whom have I found encouragement in my humanity? In Play. Tell. Be. Postures for Leading and Living Well, I talk often of the truth that we are fully human [...]
Meet me where you are
A meditation with Jeremiah 1:4–10 Do not say 'I am only a child' ... For the young will dream dreams and see visions to lead the people into [...]
Creative Contemplation. Knitting
A new habit My family call it an obsession. I do bring it with me when I know there will be moments of stillness: while the children are encouraged into bed; while the [...]
From the Mist
New poetry collection out now! I am delighted to share that a new poetry collection, From the Mist, is now available. Kookaburras welcome a broken poet home, and jacarandas weep with her [...]
A Ministry with Words
Asking for help For twenty years, I have invested significantly of time, energy, money, into my craft, my evolving ministry through words. Story crafting, telling, interpreting, listening. Poetry, liturgy, prayer, song. I spend [...]
A Spirited Pentecost
Through the eyes of Jesus' 'beloved disciple' with Acts 2:1–21 I watched as Peter paced up and down throughout the house, edgy and impatient. That man cannot sit still. Others were jittery, [...]
The Song we sing
Love is the Song I met with a family recently, to plan the funeral of a loved one. As they spoke with me about the choice of songs to sing, I could hear, [...]
Return to life
Easter Day reflections Pulling the lens wider The resurrection of Jesus is told often with a sense of immediacy – whiz – bang – blinding light and earth-shattering suddenness [...]
Holy Week poetry
Holy Week: Tuesday Pray the Story has been a project, a practice, of composing prayer-poems (poetic prayers or prayerful poems) in response to biblical compositions. At various times I have read these [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. A new chapter
I stopped writing episodes in this diary of chronic exhaustion several years ago, when I needed to concentrate first on survival in a traumatic couple of years, and then on [...]
Stories for life
Madeline Martin's bookish heroines This Christmas, while looking for gifts for others, I found a novel that grabbed my attention, then went looking for more from the author. In these particular works, Madeline [...]
