Guarding our heart’s treasure
Reflection for Athelstone Uniting Church, 26 February 2023 : Lent 1 Matthew 6:19–21 In secret litany based on Matt 6:1–6, 16–21 (Sarah Agnew, Pray the Story) Come into a secret room, [...]
Resolution foolish
Reflection for Brougham Place Uniting Church, 29 January 2023 Micah 6:1–8; Psalm 15; 1 Cor 1:18–31; Matt 5:1–12 Realignments My car service falls due each January. New five years [...]
Advent: practice, play, prayer
Play Jigsaw puzzles are like meditation for me, in a way. They invite a focus on this present image, this present portion of an image. They are about process more [...]
while the jacarandas burst
jacarandas shout rebirth! life turns out of winter sleep; yet, spring’s unseasonal storms wash purple tears in torrents a brother, all of a sudden; a mother, cancer let go at last the trees and [...]
Pray with me, or go deeper?
Pray the Story Podcast is live! Pray with me. Respond to the words of the Bible with poetry, with prayer, with imagination. Each month, audio and text for four new [...]
Guiding your people through Advent
I have been creating liturgies for, and retelling the stories of, Advent and Christmas for many years now, and I would like to share that creativity with you. Perhaps you'll use a prayer [...]
of ripples, glistening
sunlight shows the surface ripples, glistens gold on dew-dropped leaves; warms my legs and blinds me as I squint past upper story windows to the vast pristine blue from hidden perches, kookaburras’ laughter draws [...]
Space for your story
Turning up I turn up. I make time, I open a Zoom chat, come to your home, welcome you to mine, or meet you in another warm, inviting, environment. When I turn up, [...]
Inside a pain flare
Chronic Fatigue is not only the physical pain, discomfort, and difficulty in moving your body, nor that your body feels ten times heavier than it is. Chronic Fatigue is also your [...]
Holding space for your retreat
Perhaps it seems a bit twee in expression, but part of my vocation, my exercise of a ministry of presence, is to hold space for people. I exercise a ministry of holding people [...]
returning
golden floodlight lifts greens to bolder brightness against deep grey – lifts me on a rolling wave of petrichor I can almost hear on my heart’s memory of the ocean – a sudden taste [...]
Jesus welcomes children
It is a story to which I return again and again. It is the story I use to demonstrate what I mean by emotion, physicality, and audience showing me meaning in a biblical composition [...]